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About 15 minutes before Zia Yusuf’s shock resignation, a few senior Reform figures were warned something was due to happen.
“It was a surprise, but we knew something was up,” a senior party source tells me.
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Alongside Nigel Farage and Richard Tice, Mr Yusuf has been an increasingly recognisable face in Reform UK.
That was no accident: he was being put forward for more media interviews and was seen by some, including Mr Farage, as the future of the party.
So what went wrong? A senior source tells me Mr Yusuf “definitely was not pushed” and the situation was very different to the resignation of former Reform MP Rupert Lowe.
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The source said relations between the party leader and Mr Yusuf are “absolutely fine” and the pair have been in contact.
In his statement, the former chairman said the role was no longer “a good use of my time”.
Behind the scenes, Mr Yusuf did have critics….
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