Former banker Zia Yusuf has rejoined the Reform Party just 48 hours after dramatically resigning as chairman.
His shock departure on Thursday threatened to plunge the Nigel Farage-led party into fresh chaos and came just hours after he hit out at one of Reform’s own MPs for a ‘dumb’ question in the House of Commons about banning the burka.
The multi-millionaire businessman publicly questioned why Sarah Pochin, Reform’s recently-elected MP for Runcorn and Helsby, had challenged the Prime Minister about the issue on Wednesday.
There were also reports that Mr Yusuf had recently been ‘sidelined’ within Reform, including claims that some of his responsibilities had been passed elsewhere.
At the time of his resignation, he said he no longer believed that working for Reform to win power at the next general election was ‘a good use of my time’.
But the 38-year-old businessman, who is a practising Muslim, has now apparently performed a U-turn and will rejoin Reform in a new role.
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