Chairman of right-wing Reform party abruptly quits

Zia Yusuf, the chairman of Britain’s right-wing Reform UK party, abruptly resigned on Thursday following a row with its newest lawmaker, becoming the latest senior figure to exit the populist party.

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Reform, led by Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage, has overtaken Prime Minister Keir Starmer's Labour Party in opinion polls as Britain’s most popular political party less than a year after it won five parliamentary seats at a national election.

Mr Yusuf, a businessman who is not a lawmaker himself, was made Reform's chairman last year, as Mr Farage went on a drive to professionalise the party.