Reform lost their businessman – what does this mean for the party? June 6, 2025 Barely a week ago, Zia Yusuf was hosting journalists in the City, trying to sell them on Reform’s crypto plan. But things quickly went awry for the Reform party chairman. On Wednesday, Yusuf publicly contradicted Reform MP Sarah Pochin’s call in Parliament for a burqa ban. On Thursday, he resigned. The chairman announced he was [...]
Reform in chaos as Zia Yusuf quits as Chair June 5, 2025 The chairman of Reform UK has quit his position, saying working to get the party elected was no longer “a good use of my time”. Zia Yusuf’s decision follows a row in which he described a question to the Prime Minister concerning a ban on burkas from his party’s newest MP as “dumb”. Announcing his [...]
Reform’s new crypto plan: politics ‘the driving force’ June 1, 2025 While Reform UK leader Nigel Farage was busy wooing the Bitcoin aficionados in Sin City, Las Vegas, party chairman Zia Yusuf faced the much less glamorous task of selling the UK media their new crypto plan. “This is not about turning the UK into some alt-coin scammers paradise,” Yusuf said. This follows the Reform party’s [...]
Reform will make the UK a crypto powerhouse May 29, 2025 Reform will turn the UK into a crypto powerhouse – and take young voters seriously, writes chairman Zia Yusuf.
Keir Starmer hits back at Reform’s ‘fantasy’ economic policies May 29, 2025 Keir Starmer has hit back at Nigel Farage’s “fantasy economics,” after the Reform leader laid out a suite of fresh policies aimed at attracting voters away from Labour. In a speech to workers in the North West later today Starmer plans make the case against Farage’s economic credibility, likening the proposals to the Liz Truss [...]
Reform present Tories with chance to rebuild economic credibility May 28, 2025 I bumped into a Tory MP in the City yesterday and after a cheerful catch up their mood crumbled when I asked about the state of their party. “We’re finished as a political force” was the frank assessment. A couple of hours later, Nigel Farage was making the same point on stage in Westminster, declaring [...]
Reform UK has overthrown Tories as main opposition party, Farage says May 27, 2025 Reform UK has unseated the Conservatives as the main threat to the government, Nigel Farage has said, as he seeks to cement Reform’s poll lead over Britain’s oldest political party. The Brexit campaigner said the Conservative party have “ceased to be a national party, they are now an irrelevance in Scotland … in Wales … [...]
Farage challenges Labour as ‘working class’ party May 27, 2025 Nigel Farage has insisted that Reform has replaced Labour as “the party of the working class,” while introducing a litany of policies which he claims represent the interests of working people. In a speech on Tuesday morning, the Reform leader goaded the Labour Party, accusing leaders of being “absolutely terrified” of him. Farage lambasted Labour’s [...]
Farage unveils Reform UK’s new economic policies May 27, 2025 Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has unveiled a tranche of policies aimed at increasing birth rates in the UK, cutting down on government spending, and reinstating welfare policies as he seeks to capitalise on the party’s popularity. The new policies are part of a wider push from the party to present themselves as “the party [...]
As Labour chases Reform, they’re bleeding votes on the left May 25, 2025 Just two weeks after Reform UK’s local election triumph, the government announced a major crackdown on immigration. But while Labour scrambles to neutralise the threat from the right, it risks losing another, just as substantial, cohort to its left, argues Fonie Mitsopoulou. The electorate doesn’t love Labour at the moment. Recent polls indicate that of [...]