The sudden departure of Zia Yusuf, chairman of Nigel Farage’s anti-immigration party, is a blow to the organization and comes after a clash with another party member over the burqa.

Zia Yusuf, who quit as chairman of Britain's hard-right Reform UK party saying it was not a "good use of his time", announced on Saturday he was taking up a new role in the party.Yusuf's announcement on X Thursday that he was leaving came after he criticised the party's newest MP for asking Prime Minister Keir Starmer whether he would ban the wearing of burqas in the UK.

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