6 June 2025, 14:46

By Humza Yousaf MSP

Zia Yusuf’s resignation as Chairman of Reform should not come as a surprise to anyone, least of all to Zia himself.

His story is not one of betrayal but one of inevitability.

A Muslim, Person of Colour, and son of immigrant parents, who reportedly donated hundreds of thousands of pounds to Reform, Zia was held up as a poster-boy by a party eager to detoxify its image. But when the mask slipped - as it always does with the hard-right - he was swiftly and predictably cast aside.

There’s a lesson here. For every Person of Colour who thinks they can cosy up to the hard-right in pursuit of power, influence, or status: they will use you, and then they will discard you. No amount of money or loyalty will ever make you “one of them.”

Zia Yusuf served a purpose. Reform milked him for money, and used his entrepreneurial expertise to help professionalise the party, all of which........

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