#079 - Zia Yusuf - Reform’s Bold Plan to Save the UK
Mr Obnoxious
Peter McCormack
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2025
⏱️ 120 minutes
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Summary
Zia Yusuf is a successful businessman, the Chairman of Reform UK and one of the driving forces behind the party’s bold and disruptive policy platform.
In this interview, we go deep into Reform UK’s policy agenda, from mass immigration and broken public services to crime, the cost of living, and the digital economy. Zia outlines a radical but pragmatic vision for national renewal, including smaller government, constitutional reform, sound money, and digital asset freedom.
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| 0:00.0 | So we're in politics because we think Britain can be an amazing country again. |
| 0:04.1 | That is why we're here. We're not here for managed decline. And most politicians I meet in |
| 0:07.6 | Westminster, whether they admit it or not, the whole frame is managed to climb. Pumped the patient |
| 0:11.8 | with as much morphine as necessary to make it as comfortable as it can while it fades into |
| 0:16.0 | utter irrelevance and maybe even worse than that, right? We think something much better is possible. |
| 0:20.9 | It's a time-limited mission. I think that we have to win a majority in 2029, which is why we're |
| 0:25.4 | working as hard as we are, why Nigels came out of retirement to do this. |
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| 1:14.6 | com. Morning, Zia. How you doing? Good morning. Very well. How are you? Good, good. Well, |
| 1:20.1 | a lot happier here in reform having a digital assets bill, the industry I've been involved in for the last |
| 1:25.9 | decade now, being treated seriously |
| 1:27.8 | by a UK party and we will come to that. But the momentum for reform at the moment is pretty |
| 1:34.2 | insane. Yeah, it's unprecedented. You know, if we look at where we were about a year ago, |
| 1:40.9 | I mean, we're not far off a precise one year anniversary from a Nigel held a press conference, |
| 1:46.0 | billed as an emergency announcement with the siren emoji on Twitter. I still remember it. And he said he was going to come back, |
| 1:52.8 | he was going to lead Reform UK. He announced his candidacy to be the next MP for Clacton on C. |
| 2:03.3 | And I still remember actually that the betting odds, |
| 2:05.1 | because I just looked at see where things were, |
| 2:06.7 | at the end of that day, |
| 2:12.4 | they priced Nigel being the next MP in Clacton at about 32%. Today, the probability that the betting market has placed on him |
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