Zia Yusuf "un-resigned" from Reform in an X post today - after quitting the chairmanship and the party on Friday and saying he no longer believed in the party, follwing a row over calls to ban the bur

Zia Yusuf, who resigned as Reform UK chairman on Thursday, is to return to work for the party in a new role.Yusuf will lead what the party calls its "Doge team" – which is modelled on the Department of Government Efficiency set up by President Trump.

Yusuf said he would focus on a new role overseeing an Elon Musk-inspired "UK DOGE team" within Reform that the party hopes will reduce wasteful spending at the councils it control