"The appointment of the recently defected former Conservative cabinet minister is likely to raise eyebrows within the party when the role had previously been widely expected to be handed to the former leader Richard Tice."
"Tice is reported to be being offered a combined business and energy role that would put him in charge of climate policy that he has dubbed net stupid zero, according to the Telegraph."
"Last year, Yusuf unveiled the party's mass deportation policy, with the aim of deporting up to 650,000 people over a five-year period."
"I think the moment to properly move away from the potential criticism that we're a one-man band has been there now for a few weeks, and that's why I'm doing this," he said. "Am I concerned? No, I'm relieved actually. I'm relieved that other people are taking up these big areas, and from"
Nigel Farage will appoint Robert Jenrick as Reform UK's potential chancellor, replacing earlier expectations that Richard Tice would take the role. Richard Tice will be given a combined business, energy and industry brief that would include climate policy he has called "net stupid zero." Zia Yusuf is expected to become home affairs spokesperson and will handle immigration policy, including a proposed deportation target of up to 650,000 people over five years. The appointments are not a formal shadow cabinet because the party has only eight MPs. A new fifth great office of state will sit alongside Foreign Office, Home Office, Treasury and No 10. Farage frames the moves as broadening leadership beyond a single figure.
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