Zia Yusuf has returned to Reform UK. (Image Ben Whitley/PA Wire)

Zia Yusuf is returning to Reform UK as head of their “UK DOGE” programme.

Just two days after the party chairman stepped down , following a dispute with the party over whether they would support the introduction of a burqa ban, Yusuf announced his new role on social media.

Yusuf said he reconsidered stepping away from what he called “the most important project of my life” after receiving an influx of “lovely and heartfelt messages from people who have expressed their dismay at my resignation.”

Yusuf leaned into his business credentials, citing the party’s growth “from ‘startup’ to ‘scaleup’” under his tenure as chairman.

DOGE, or the Department of Government Efficiency, refers to efforts in the US to rid the governmen

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