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BONUS: Zia Yusuf resigns – has Reform just imploded?
Manage episode 487052033 series 2592675
Just ten minutes after we'd published today's podcast on whether Reform and Nigel Farage could achieve a stunning victory in Scotland in a by-election in Hamilton - a bombshell.
The party chairman Zia Yusuf, the businessman who Nigel Farage long-maintained had professionalised the party since his arrival last year, and attributed many of their recent successes to, had resigned.
The news came after a row during Prime Minister's Questions yesterday when Reform's newest MP, Sarah Pochin, asked Keir Starmer whether it was time to ban the burqa. Yusuf publicly criticised the intervention as "dumb" and "nothing to do with me", and announced his shock departure just over twenty four hours later with the polls still open in Hamilton.
Gordon Rayner and Tony Diver react to the news in a bonus extra Daily T, with Tony having just spoken to a Conservative MP delighted that Reform had "imploded, at last".
Producer: Lilian Fawcett
Senior Producer: John Cadigan
Executive Producer: Louisa Wells
Social Media Producer: Jessica Phillips
Video Editor: Andy Mackenzie
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
1151 episodes
Manage episode 487052033 series 2592675
Just ten minutes after we'd published today's podcast on whether Reform and Nigel Farage could achieve a stunning victory in Scotland in a by-election in Hamilton - a bombshell.
The party chairman Zia Yusuf, the businessman who Nigel Farage long-maintained had professionalised the party since his arrival last year, and attributed many of their recent successes to, had resigned.
The news came after a row during Prime Minister's Questions yesterday when Reform's newest MP, Sarah Pochin, asked Keir Starmer whether it was time to ban the burqa. Yusuf publicly criticised the intervention as "dumb" and "nothing to do with me", and announced his shock departure just over twenty four hours later with the polls still open in Hamilton.
Gordon Rayner and Tony Diver react to the news in a bonus extra Daily T, with Tony having just spoken to a Conservative MP delighted that Reform had "imploded, at last".
Producer: Lilian Fawcett
Senior Producer: John Cadigan
Executive Producer: Louisa Wells
Social Media Producer: Jessica Phillips
Video Editor: Andy Mackenzie
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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