Colleagues reveal what Reform’s Zia Yusuf is like to work for

On a cloudy Tuesday in September last year, Gawain Towler, a veteran press chief for Nigel Farage’s various political parties, was working in Reform UK’s central London offices when his phone went calling him into a meeting.

He was being given the sack.

The decision had been made by Zia Yusuf, the then newly-appointed Reform UK chairman with a mandate to professionalise the party.

But although multimillionaire businessman Yusuf was sitting close to Towler in the party’s office, it was delegated to Reform’s chief operations officer to ring him and then deliver the news in an adjoining room.

After 20 years working for Eurosceptic causes, he was given just a few minutes to clear his desk and leave.

“My…