'Are You On Glue?': Zia Yusuf Mocked After Latest Attack On 'Former Tory Ministers'

Zia Yusuf has been mocked online after launching another thinly-veiled swipe at some of his own Reform UK colleagues.

The party’s home affairs spokesman hit out at “former Tory ministers”, despite the fact that most of Reform’s senior figures served in the last Conservative government.

In a late-night rant on X, Yusuf said they were “the most nefarious people outside of those in prison”.

That seemed to be a direct attack on the likes of Robert Jenrick, Suella Braverman, Nadine Dorries, David Jones and Nadhim Zahawi, who all served in Conservative cabinets before switching to Reform.

His attack came just a day after he hit out at “deadbeat Tory ministers” in another social media post.

Yusuf’s latest tirade seems to have been triggered by the fact that Rishi Sunak and Jacob Rees-Mogg are back in the news.

Former PM Sunak won praise for hitting back at claims non-white people cannot be English, while Rees-Mogg warned about the threat of war with Russia.

Yusuf said “people are furious” at what the two senior Tories were saying.

He said: “They’re former Tory Ministers. The most nefarious people outside of those in prison. They betrayed our country and caused incalculable harm. Ignore them. Vote Reform. Then we will hold them to account.”

X users were quick to point out to Yusuf that many of those “former Tory ministers” are actually his Reform frontbench colleagues.

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