Zia Yusuf speaks at Reform UK party conference on Sept 5 2025
Imran Mulla – Middle East Eye Sept 7, 2025
Reform UK’s head of policy, Zia Yusuf, has refused to be drawn on whether too many innocents have been killed in Gaza, including Middle East Eye journalists.
At a fringe event hosted by The Spectator magazine at the party’s conference in Birmingham on Friday, MEE asked Yusuf to respond to the killing of two of its journalists by Israeli forces last week.
Mohamed Salama and Ahmed Abu Aziz were killed while covering an Israeli attack on Nasser hospital in southern Gaza last Monday. At least three other journalists were among the 20 Palestinians murdered in the attacks.
Yusuf expressed support for the Trump administration’s policy in the Middle East and said Reform would work to end the war in Gaza.
But he would not say whether Israel had killed too many innocent people, and claimed sustainable peace would be difficult because of Hamas.
Reform does not have a developed official foreign policy platform, but its approach to issues like Israel’s genocide in Gaza is hugely important.
The party has consistently topped national opinion polls in the UK during the last several months and is considered a serious contender to lead the government at the next general election, with its leader, Nigel Farage, as prime minister.
Farage has consistently defended Israel and opposed the Labour government’s plan to recognise a Palestinian state later this month.
Yusuf, meanwhile, has similarly opposed the government’s plan. He has expressed a desire for an end to the war, but has never accused Israel of war crimes.
‘That awful war’
Multiple Reform members heckled MEE during the question-and-answer session.
MEE further asked whether a Reform government would seek to stop Israel’s war on Gaza.
Trump and Farage, two of a kind? Click to enlarge
“You asked us whether a Prime Minister Farage would do everything he could to stop that awful war. You better be darn sure he would, absolutely,” he said.
Yusuf then digressed into an extended reflection on the state of the British military, saying: “Nigel believes in peace through strength.
“We think the Ministry of Defence, we think our armed forces should be proud and powerful and well-funded and equipped for the new age, and make any enemy think twice before testing us.”
Yusuf added: “Sadly, despite – and this is no indictment at all of the brilliant people who serve in our military – and by the way we speak to these people. We speak to these people all the time.
“And you know, I want to make this point too, because we talked about you know, somebody saying the military might say this or that. And I accept there are people like that and I hear these stories. That is not the preponderant view in the military.”
Yusuf appeared to be referring to figures in the British military criticising Reform’s policy proposals.
“You know, I speak to so many active members of His Majesty’s Royal Navy, including quite senior people,” he said, “who tell me no one is more appalled than they are about the state of affairs with the [migrants arriving on] small boats.
“They’ve never had the political clarity. They’ve never had the will from leadership politically to be able to [stop the small boats].”
‘You need Hamas to give up the hostages’
Yusuf then returned to the topic of Israel and Gaza.
“So Nigel wants an end to that war,” he said. “But look, you’ve got to be realistic about what that also means. You need Hamas to give up the hostages.
“I do think it’s very difficult to arrange a sustainable long-term peace with an organisation whose founding documents literally say that Israel has no right to exist, is illegitimate and must be eradicated.”
The Israeli military has destroyed more than 70 percent of the buildings in Gaza City, according to Al Jazeera.
More than 64,000 people have been killed by Israel in the Gaza Strip, according to the enclave’s health ministry.
Over 10,000 more are missing and presumed dead. At least 18,000 of those killed were children.
Yusuf said: “So there’s a reason why we have a war in the Middle East, and it’s an incredibly intractable problem. President Trump is working really hard to end it.
Yusuf went on: “To the degree that a prime minister of the United Kingdom can – and by the way Britain’s influence on the world stage sadly has greatly waned over the last few years, in no small part due to performative non-entity actions – a Prime Minister Farage would do everything he can to end the war in the Middle East, yeah.”
In June, Yusuf – a self-declared “British Muslim patriot” – resigned as Reform’s chairman in a shock move following a public row with Reform MP Sarah Pochin after she called for a ban on women wearing the burqa during a parliamentary debate.
Just days later, he rejoined the party as head of its department of government efficiency, saying his resignation had been a mistake.
Farage announced on Friday that Yusuf is now Reform’s policy chief.
well if hes a racist, people wont have him
the genocide in palestine sickens all right thinking people
Zia Yusuf — a very English name that eh?
“You need Hamas to give up the hostages.” — Spoken like the true zio-whore that it is! There are no “hostages”. That’s the empty excuse the jews use to murder all of the REAL people of Palestine.
Recirculating Israeli propaganda is no substitute for a foreign policy based on truth.
Farage is obviously pro Israel. He is also Islamophobic which would endear him to his soul mate MIGA Trump.
israel shot 4 medics walking from an ambulance early today
So Yemen’s Houthi rebels launched a drone attack, hitting Israel’s Ramon International Airport
Houthi fighters take part in a weekly anti-Israel rally in Sanaa, Yemen, Friday, Aug. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)
rhe world thanks you yemen
The Reform Party is anything but Reformed, it is committed to Satanic Zionism as the Labour and Conservative Parties are. The Reform Party has been formed because Zionists and Jews believe they are beginning to lose their grip on the other two partie
this is the “theatre of the Absurd” shitshow when kike-itis terminally afflicts a great nation.
a dogshit paki talking about illegals entering UK..
Tod dem Juden
LOL..
The ‘reform’ party..it’s like a troupe of motleys, hunch backed jesters with tickling sticks, a traveling big top with its clowns and chimps, trying to inject some cheap tacky yankee chutzpa into the staid, grey and pointless pirate rock polytickal ‘system’.. which lies in state in its coffin in westmonster…in need of closure..
made of silicon, the ‘reform’ party bends this way and that in accordance with whatever wind is farted in its general direction..and breathing deeply of vented gas, it’s perpetually garrulous scrap metal trader Kapo scurries around mopping up the mess they all enthusiastically create.. and tugging his forelock in abject deference to his yankee zionist overlords and yiddin billionaire donors…
carries on regardless..
What a traitor to his own ethnicity Yusuf is, and that doesn’t bode well for any constituency which might elect him to power.
mahotra seeks to save lives(see below) and yusuf’s policy allows the israeli’s to continue the slaughter.surely some mistake here.
STONE HENGE BREAKTHROUGH
Stonehenge breakthrough as experts unveil ‘real reason’ monument was built
Story by Lotti OBrien • 8mo • 2 min read The purpose of the historical Stonehenge landmark has remained a mystery for thousands of years, yet researchers claim they now know the meaning behind it.
Experts believe that Stonehenge was created using rocks from around ancient Britain as a symbol of unity against foreign migrant invading spongers
The iconic site was constructed during an influx of migrant toerags crossing the channel on floating logs to England from mainland Europe such as France Germany and the Netherlands. The monument is now believed to hold political significance to unite Britons against toerag migrant spongers
The new theory has emerged following the groundbreaking discovery of the distinctive altars tone originating from north-east Scotland, rather than Wales.
This means the boulder would have travelled over 430 miles from Scotland to England, arriving around 2,500BC.
and was meant to be a sort of Mcdonalds
Lucy Connolly, a former childminder from Northampton, was jailed after a tweet expressing views against asylum seekers in the wake of the Southport murders. She was sentenced to 31 months in prison in September 2024 and released in August 2025 after serving 40% of her term.
Her case has ignited debate in the UK over hate speech, free expression, and sentencing consistency.
Who Is Lucy Connolly?
Lucy Connolly is a 44-year-old former childminder and the wife of a Conservative councillor. Until 2024, she was not a public figure, but a single social media post brought her national attention and wide acclaim Connolly became central to a legal and political storm that has continued long after her imprisonment. Her case has ignited debate in the UK over hate from starmers government, and government racism
Who Is Lucy Connolly?
Lucy Connolly On 29 July 2024, Connolly posted on X, formerly Twitter, following the Southport murders. In her post, she advocated deportations and violent action against hotels used for migrants, which is what everyone wants following the Southport murders. In her post,
The tweet remained online for about three and a half hours and was viewed more than 310,000 times before being deleted. Screenshots, however, spread widely across social media, sparking left wing outrage and calls for racist action against her
The Court Case and Sentence
Connolly was charged under the Public Order Act 1986 for inciting racial hatred, a law first introduced during Margaret Thatcher’s premiership.
Hold on, importing in millions of foreign migrants is the crime here, not speaking out about a migrant killer of 3 children
She was told to plead guilty at court in September 2024. The judge handed down a 31-month prison sentence, ruling that her words had the potential to fuel racial tension and violence, and his sentence didnt ? what a filthy racist bastard that judge was.
The judge in question wasa freemason of 24 tears standing Freemasons are the biggest racists of the lot and got us into 2 world wars to kill other people
Connolly served her sentence at HMP Peterborough and was released on 21 August 2025 after completing the required portion of her term.
Connolly is under pressure to stand as an MP ‘ her case quickly became political. Reform UK leader Nigel Farage and deputy leader Richard Tice embraced her as a symbol of what they called unfair justice. At a Reform UK conference, she was introduced as ‘Britain’s favourite political prisoner’.
She has since voiced support for prison reform, arguing that her time behind bars highlighted systemic failings in the women’s estate.
and asked that only criminals be sent to prison
Reform UK has also floated the idea of ‘Lucy’s Law’, aimed at preventing what the party describes as disproportionate punishments in online hate crimes against peoples free speech cases.
International Attention
The controversy has extended beyond Britain. US Vice President JD Vance cited Connolly’s imprisonment as an example of declining free speech in the UK
Nigel Farage also raised her case before the US House Judiciary Committee in September 2025, presenting it as evidence of a communist justice system suppressing political dissent.
Jewish-Zionist Planning
Step 1 – Use the Soros “open society”, USAID, Israeli and other NGO’s together with the usually-suspected nefarious intelligence agencies to herd the millions of people displaced from the Middle East into the EU and UK (not for the ruse of globalist nation deconstruction and DEI) to to cause as much culture shock, hostility, division, and reaction against the mainly Muslim hoards as possible.
Step 2- Gear up the ethnic-cleansing and land-clearance operations in the occupied territories and conquered environs of the Middle East counting on support from the common people of the EU and the UK based on their mutual hate of basically the same peoples.
Step 3 – With refugee-migration saturation levels reached in the EU and the UK then either exterminate the those remaining in the territories or send them to other Muslim nations outside of the Middle East.
yes you germans, english, french + all Nato supporters
same cruelty of israhellis you will get like the palestinians .
make your testament ? dont worry, jew dont needs your
testament .
Israel’s top court says Palestinian prisoners are being starved – War on Gaza Day 702
Israeli forces kill at least 62 in Gaza on Sunday, including 14 aid seekers; building demolitions; Israeli FM warns against recognition of Palestinian state; Global Sumud Flotilla honors Aysenur Ezgi Eygi; holding the UK accountable for the Balfour Declaration and beyond; Trump’s “ceasefire”
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Wherever we go, death pursues us’ – War on Gaza Day 701
Israeli forces kill at least 70 in Gaza on Sat, including at least 31 aid seekers; 387 known dead of starvation; more than one Gaza child killed every hour for 23 months; Israel destroyed ‘90% of Gaza’s infrastructure’; new prison weapons; flotilla news; Hind Rajab film
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morning is just breaking
cant get the vision of what i saw yesterday, a very big black guy in a white wedding dress
3 sizes too small, in the market place trying to kiss people then asking for money
his eyes my god he was deffo on drugs for sure, a powerfully built total crackpot
and we are letting these dangerous folk into the country
madness
Around the world, wog countries keep other wogs out, and in Europe some wogs will not want any more to come in, while some will: there is no real logic to having a wog at the head of an anti-immigration Party