Johnson UK’s most damaging PM, says Reform UK chairman Zia Yusuf
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Reform UK Chairman Zia Yusuf said history will make Boris Johnson consider one of the most destructive prime ministers in British history.
Yusuf told the BBC’s political thinking podcast Johnson would be unpopular to join the UK reform.
The UK reform president criticized Johnson’s record on the Alliance’s pandemic, immigration and public spending when he served as prime minister from 2019 to 2022.
Yousoft said Johnson had nothing “conservative” and labeled the Conservative Party as an “extreme left-wing party” in the government.
The BBC has asked a Johnson spokesperson to comment.
Party Chairman talks with BBC’s Nick Robinson after UK reform YouGov’s poll This is the first time in front of labor with a 24% rate and 21% Conservatives leading the way.
The renamed Brexit party ranked third in last year’s general election, accounting for 14% of the vote, but received only five members of MPs, including party leader Nigel Farage.
If the election is held tomorrow, polls show that reforming the UK will win between 140 and 200 seats in public, Yousuf said.
He claimed that reforming Britain would win up to 400 seats in the next general election, although no poll could support that.
Yusuf said at a new meeting this week that the UK reforms had nearly 200,000 members, much higher than the number announced by the Conservative Party.
The BBC was told Boris Johnson had lunch with Nick Candy, the main fundraiser of the UK reform, in late January.
But Yousof told Nick Robinson that he did not want the former prime minister to join the British reform.
“History will make Boris Johnson look at one of the most destructive prime ministers in the country’s history,” he said.
He added that the increase in Johnson’s net migration during the Premier League was a “full betrayal of everyone who voted for Brexit”.
“He put public spending closer to Soviet spending.
“So he’s not conservative.”
By contrast, Yusuf praised former Home Secretary Suella Braverman and said he would be welcomed by British reforms.
He said he had held several meetings with Braverman, saying that while he said her views on immigration were out of reach, conservatives were “deported” and “unbeatis” by Conservatives, despite his statement that her views on immigration were out of reach. ”.
A former banker who sold his tech startup for over £200 million, described himself as a “proud British Muslim patriot” and added that his faith was important to him, he observed Ramadan .
Shortly after last year’s general election, he became the chairman of the UK shortly after a member of the Conservative Party.
He revealed that he had donated £200,000 to the party during the campaign.
As the chairman of the party, he was given a job to make the party professional, attract donors and increase the base of British activists.
He told Nick Robinson Reform that only has 24 employees, “people are not very grateful for the achievements made in such a short time”.
He added: “A lot of what we do is to lay the foundation for generations.”
Kemi Badenoch denies Plans make it harder for immigrants to obtain UK citizenship – This is her first major Percy as a Conservative leader – a response to the rise of reform in Britain.
She dismissed the surge in polls, saying she could remember another rebel party (SDP) in the 1980s “at 50% in the polls” and insisted that her party focused on “doing thinking” to improve these policies, Improve these policies. life.
Labor is also increasingly diverting its fires of reforms against Britain, with Sir Keir Starmer attacking Farage’s position on NHS funding on the Prime Minister’s issue this week.
You can listen to political thinking with Nick Robinson on Saturday at 17:30 GMT or BBC Sounds on BBC Radio 4.
