Jenrick urges Yusuf sacking over antisemitic post row

Nigel Farage is facing calls to sack his right-hand man Zia Yusuf after the senior Reform UK figure said that a member of his team “accidentally pressed like” on an antisemitic post which attacked the wife of Tory MP Robert Jenrick.

- DAVID MADDOX POLITICAL EDITOR

The former Reform chair, who now heads the party’s Doge unit, has apologised for the incident, which comes after an anonymous X user posted a video that appeared to show Mr Yusuf liking a tweet which said: “Reminder that Jenrick is a traitorous Zogbot with a Jewish wife and family. I’m sure it’s unrelated that he imported infinite brown savages to rape our women and children.”

Zogbot is a derogatory term for a Zionist.

The anonymous account that shared the screen recording of Mr Yusuf’s interaction with the post described it as “absolutely horrifying antisemitism”.

Since last summer, likes on X have been privatised, so that only the liker and the poster can see them, rather than a wider audience.

In response, Mr Jenrick said he “called bullshit” and pointed out that Mr Yusuf had been calling him a “traitor” for the previous 48 hours over the Afghan data breach in what had become an ugly spat.