Reform UK's deputy leader Richard Tice has insisted the party knows "exactly what it is doing" following a 48 hours in which its chairman Zia Yusuf resigned, before returning in a different role.
On Thursday, Yusuf dramatically quit, saying in a social media post that trying to get the party elected was not "a good use of my time".
However, two days later he said he would be coming back to lead the party's unit tasked with identifying spending cuts at councils, which is inspired by the US Department of Government Efficiency.
Tice told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg that chairing the party was "a tough, brutal job" and Yusuf was "essentially exhausted" after 11 months in the role.
"It's a massive job, and as we were growing incredibly fast – essentially that job was too much for one person, so we're reorganising.
"I'm delighted that Zia is staying with the party and he's going to be focusing on our Doge unit."
