Yusuf had earlier criticized the party’s new MP Sarah Pochin for asking Prime Minister Keir Starmer whether the U.K. would ban the burqa in a House of Commons exchange on Wednesday.
“Nothing to do with me,” Yusuf said Thursday morning about the Pochin question.
Yusuf, the co-founder of concierge service Velocity Black, was seen as a crucial hire for Reform as Farage attempted to professionalize his movement. The departure will be seen as a setback to the party’s plans for electoral success.
“I’ve worked full time as a volunteer to take the party from 14 to 30 percent, quadrupled its membership and delivered historic electoral results,” Yusuf wrote in his X post.
Farage quickly posted that he was “genuinely sorry” about Yusuf’s abrupt departure, praising the ex-chairman for being a “huge factor in our success.”
“Politics can be a highly pressured and difficult game and Zia has clearly had enough,” Farage added.
