A British-born Muslim businessman has donated hundreds of thousands of pounds sterling to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party, undercutting the legacy media narrative of “Islamophobia” within the populist party. Zia Yusuf, the co-founder of the digital concierge firm Velocity Black — which he sold last year to Capital One for £233 million — has made the largest donation of the UK election campaign, reportedly in the hundreds of thousands, to the Reform party of Nigel Farage. Yusuf, 37, born to Sri Lankan immigrants in Scotland, said that Farage’s message against illegal immigration and the record levels of legal migration resonates with many immigrant families in the UK, particularly those who came into the country legally.
“My parents came here legally. When I talk to my friends they are as affronted as anyone by illegal Channel crossings, which are an affront to all hard-working British people but not least the migrants who played by the rules and came legally,” the millionaire entrepreneur told The Telegraph . “I think Britain can be an amazing country, it’s the country of Dyson and DeepMind, but we have completely lost control of our borders, that is just factually correct,” Yusuf added.
“These are incredibly challenging times and whether it’s house prices or rental prices or the NHS, we need courageous, bold politicians who are able to confront these problems and look them in the eye, and Nigel Farage and Richard Tice are the only ones prepared to t.
