Farage has slapped down Zia Yusuf after he described a former Tory cabinet minister who served in the Army “a traitor to Britain”. Farage told the Sun that Yusuf’s comments were ‘over the top’ and added: “That is too strong a language. The Reform leader made the comments after Yusuf took aim at former Tory cabinet minister Ben Wallace after he criticised Reform’s plan to fix the shortage of prison spaces by sending foreign criminals abroad. Wallace had posted on X asking Reform to set out how it would work in practice, given that many countries have refused to take offenders. Rather than engage with his points, Yusuf attacked Wallace calling him a ‘traitor’.