Chairman of Reform UK Zia Yusuf speaks during the Reform UK conference (Image: Getty)
‘s chairman has offered a damning verdict over the future of the , insisting it “really doesn’t matter” who wins the leadership contest.
Zia Yusuf, a party donor and then replacement chairman of Reform from reveals why he believes it makes no difference who the put at the helm.
The final four contenders; Kemi Badenoch, Robert Jenrick, and Tom Tugendhat have all this week been vying to become the party’s next leader after the were spectacularly knocked out of power to Labour.
, each gave a 20-minute speech today (October 2) to persuade party members why they are the right person for the job.
But Mr Yusuf, 38, has flipped the entire contest, and delivered a harsh blow about the party’s future. He told Express.co.uk: “It is quite clear the Tory brand is broken, the leadership hopefuls are all living on cloud-cuckoo.
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Leader of the Reform UK Party, Nigel Farage MP, delivers speech (Image: Getty)
“All Tory leadership hopefuls think they have the God given right to the votes of the people on the centre-right, but polling shows that is just not the case.
“It really doesn’t matter who wins out of the four as the party is dead and has no future,” he said.
Following a historic landslide win for the Labour party in the general election, the Conservative party won 121 seats, losing 250, in its worst-ever defeat.
’s Reform UK party won its first seats, coming second in many more, splitting the right-wing vote which contributed to the ’ loss.
Speaking about the candidates, Mr Yusuf continued: “The Conservative leader hopefuls are obsessed with , but all they are doing is their best tribute act – why would you want a cheap knock off when you can have the real thing?”
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New polling by the right-wing Popular Conservatism (PopCon) organisation, founded by Liz Truss, suggests that 53 percent of Conservative Party members would support a Merger with Reform UK.
A whopping 70 percent said they would at least want a closer relationship with ’s party, according to the survey. “I would say to any Conservative member that wants a merger: Come and join Reform,” he added.
Mr Yusuf explains how after 14 years in Government, the party promised “manifesto after manifesto”, but in his opinion, they failed to deliver.
“They said they would bring net migration down, but they blew the figures out of the water,” he said. “They said they would cut taxes, but left office having raised the burden to the highest level since the second World War.
“Knife crime is so out of control, people are afraid to leave their houses and walk the streets at night.”
The new Tory leader is set to be announced on November 2.