The chairman of Britain's hard-right Reform UK party quit on Thursday, saying that trying to get the upstarts elected to government was no longer "a good use of my time".Zia Yusuf's announcement 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. Reform,

The chairman of Reform UK has quit, saying working to get the party elected was no longer “a good use of my time”. Zia Yusuf’s decision follows a row in which he described a question to the Prime Minister concerning a ban on burkas from his party’s newest MP as “dumb”.