Diaa Youssef’s exit from reform in the United Kingdom is the most prominent division in the rebel party

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Former banker Diaa Youssef appeared on the British political scene last summer, as the man commissioned Nigel Faraj to turn the UK party to reform into a professional electoral machine capable of winning real power.

Since his appointment as head of reform, which has followed a donation of 200,000 pounds, Youssef has sought to direct the party using an iron grip or the shooting crew and activists who saw that he was incompetent or adequately committed.

But after less than a year, Youssef himself fell victim to the internal tensions that were exposed to the right -wing Popular Party even when he leads national opinion polls and disturbing the main British political establishment.

he Suddenly This week, with a post on X, it simply says that helping to pursue power is no longer a “good use” for its time.

Aaron Banks, a Brexit businessman and his long -term partner in Farage, told the Financial Times that Youssef was “a combined and controlled act,” the characteristics that Bankax said has resisted his popularity through the party.

“The Champagne will fly at the headquarters,” said Banks, who stood in vain to repair it to the municipality of West England last month. Youssef was “paid, but it was not very easy to use.”

Youssef’s exit came after his public criticism, Sarah Bouchin, Sarah Bouchin, to ask the “stupid” question in the House of Commons about the Burkas ban, a form of the complete veil that some Muslim women wear.

With the previous chair, which is from the Islamic heritage, some of which are now gone in the right -wing movement, embodies an opportunity to ensure that more time eliminates the controversy on social issues.

The division at the party’s summit – just a few months after the general battle to overthrow repair Representative Robert Lowe – is a sign of instability between the highest Farage team.

There are only five deputies in the reform and dozens of employees who work outside its headquarters in London. It still combines the infrastructure and employees needed for employees on the ten local authorities seized in the local elections in England last month.

One of the senior reform figures said that Youssef was “isolating everyone in the party” by trying to exercise control of all his activities. The person added that Youssef threatened to launch one employee if they spoke to Farraj without asking for his permission first.

Tensions between Youssef – a former banker in Goldman Sachs and businessman – and party secretary Nick Candy was raising the thief for some time, according to the people who have seen this.

Party officials and political analysts believe that Youssef’s departure is unlikely to be great in reform or Farraj popularity, which seems to be reliably bounced of scandals.

The popularity of reform was largely driven by anger and hatred towards the ruling Labor Party and the main opposition governors, as well as the increasing general frustration over the stagnation of living standards and high levels of immigration.

One of Youssef’s friend said that the defection was a large cause through the clash of culture between the corporate mentality of the chair and the rest of the party.

They said: “He came and wanted a temple, and he wanted to take people ownership and responsibility for the roles and did not feel that this was happening.” “Then people were horrific on the Internet.”

On the thirty-eighth, he was also one of the young figures facing the audience in the party, and the only one who was not white-a great loss at a time when the reform was trying to attract the base of the smaller and more diverse voters.

There were early signs that he was unhappy. On Tuesday, he rejected a request from colleagues to carry out the media on the weekend after announcing as head of the “Ministry of Governmental efficiency” in the reform, a tradition of Elon Musk’s attack on the American federal bureaucracy, but for the local authorities in England.

The banks will now take matters in the Doug Unit, claiming that he was in a better position for the role of Youssef because he had a “wider depth of commercial experience.”

Likewise, the departure of Youssef came on the same day, an evil spit broke out between US President Donald Trump and Musk – a bromine that helped raise the American popular government to power.

Only a little slowdown in British policy. “The media is constantly searching for the signs of the end of these movements, but I think it is only the beginning,” said one of the party’s largest donors. “The only thing that would do the reform is a terrible thing in Farage. Everything is still about.”