Zia Yusuf

Political party conferences can be weird events — where positive thinking and hopeful rhetoric can crowd out reality

Prisoners praise Andy Burnham as they are freed early from jail

Reform UK has been accused of trying to “distract” voters from controversy over the party’s financial affairs after it launched a small boats mobile “game”

Unions had been lobbying the governing Labour Party — to which they gave around £5 million in 2025 — against introducing an annual cap on U.K.-based individual donors, on the basis that it could curb their donations too

Starmer announces resignation as prime minister

For much of the time since Nigel Farage resumed the Reform UK leadership two long years ago, his party has been an island of relative stability in the increasingly rough sea of British politics

While other parties plunged queasily in the polls, messily purged dissidents, argued publicly about their direction and changed leaders, Farage dominated Reform UK and gave impregnably self-assured interviews

Two senior officials from the hard-right Reform UK party stepped down Friday following a hidden-camera investigation that appeared to show them soliciting substantial foreign funding for party-commissioned opinion polls as well as a potential £500,000 donation from a US donor — banned under UK law

Sagal Abdi-Wali, a former child refugee from Somalia and the leader of Camden council, has been tipped as an early favourite to contest the London seat for Labour after the former prime minister’s resignation

As Reform UK’s annual conference unfolded in Birmingham, the party was once again facing heightened scrutiny over its finances

Nigel Farage’s party took funding from a US firm for three polls it commissioned earlier this year costing £32,500, Channel 4 News reported

She also advised students receiving their GCSE exam results on Thursday "not to get ripped off by the great university scam" and to learn a trade instead

Major Reform backer suspended from party after criticising Farage

A row within Reform UK has burst into the open after the party’s leader Nigel Farage publicly slapped down one of his key allies for calling a former Tory defence secretary a ‘traitor’

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has opened talks with the government of El Salvador on potentially renting prison spaces

Foreigners to lose right to council homes under Tory government

The newly coronated PM is sunning himself on holiday while Britain burns

Reform UK has unveiled plans to create a so-called ‘Turkish barber tip line’ in an effort to crack down on businesses employing illegal migrant workers

Reform is pushing plans for a military drive — dubbed “Operation Fortress” — which it claims would ensure no small boat carry undocumented migrants reaches the English coastline

British taxpayers are effectively paying more than £8,000 for every migrant stopped at the Channel

60,000 cross into Spanish territory of Ceuta and at least 34 die after border breach

The image, which was subsequently unshared from Mr Polanski’s account, featured a man wearing a black T-shirt with the message “We’re only making plans for Nigel” and an image of a guillotine

Reform UK has called for home secretary Shabana Mahmood to resign after police found "no evidence" of a planned attack on an Islamic event

Widdecombe (78), a former MP for the Conservative Party and an MEP for Reform, died last week after a violent incident in her Devon home

The Reform UK politician was found dead in her Devon home last week, sparking a nationwide manhunt for her suspected killer

Nigel Farage turned down taxpayer-funded security which reportedly included a trained driver, car, and bodyguard last year because he deemed it “inadequate”

A furious Zia Yusuf has erupted at Sir Lindsay Hoyle, branding the Commons Speaker a "bully" and a "coward" in an angry bust-up about MPs' security

Zia Yusuf questioned Pakistan's refusal to take the criminal back after receiving 'billions' in aid

Then on Wednesday, he did a sharp reverse ferret, angrily demanding the deportation of Shabir Ahmed, the Rochdale rape gang monster just released after 14 years in prison

His appeal to maintain the sanctity of the pilgrimage came after a clash erupted on Tuesday between local residents and pilgrims returning from the Hemkund Sahib shrine

The moment raises questions over whether the populist right can successfully retain sympathetic ethnic minority voters or whether such alliances are destined to end in tears

Masked men set several homes they believed to house immigrants on fire, burned trash bins and a Belfast bus and pelted police with objects on Tuesday night

Video circulating online appeared to show members of the public confronting the attacker, including one person wielding a hurling stick

An "anti-white" ruling has sparked outrage as millions of Brits find themselves frozen out of a £25k scheme

He didn’t define those “recent events”, or what his reckoning would entail, but historically speaking, those deemed “traitors to their country” do not fare well

A British Sikh man was sentenced to life imprisonment on Monday and must serve at least 21 years after being convicted of killing a student in a case that sparked backlash when police handcuffed the victim as he lay dying following allegations of racial abuse in the UK

Professor Jagbir Jhutti-Johal criticised political leaders for framing the case as an example of two-tier policing

A UK court on Monday jailed a British Sikh man for life for killing a university student in a case that sparked anger after police handcuffed the dying victim following a false claim of racial abuse

In March, the Independent Inquiry into Grooming Gangs formally started investigating the “sexual abuse and exploitation of children by grooming gangs across England and Wales”

The leader of Restore Britain, Rupert Lowe, a former Reform UK MP who was ejected from the party in the wake of bullying allegations, released canvasing returns from Makerfield claiming to show 24.6% support for Restore’s candidate, Rebecca Shepherd, on a sample size of 1,010

A new French migrant detention centre the UK has offered to help fund is facing a legal challenge that could hamper a £660m deal to tackle illegal crossings of the English Channel

Reform’s Robert Jenrick and Zia Yusuf in public spat over party’s immigration policy

As she answered questions from the media at a petrol station in Leeds after announcing she would scrap a planned fuel duty rise, she was heckled by a man who appeared to be a Reform UK supporter

This loosely connected movement has declared its hostility to the checks and balances that prevent democracy from becoming a tyranny of the majority, or even of those with only a plurality of support

Sir Keir Starmer is facing calls to resign or drastically shake up his government after the Labour Party suffered bruising defeats in the local council, Scottish and Welsh elections on Thursday

Reform UK has gained more than 1,400 councillors across England so far, sweeping aside the Conservatives in Essex and Suffolk, and surging ahead of Labour in its northern and Midlands heartlands