A television presenter who made his name fronting a popular show about ghosts and the paranormal is to be unveiled tomorrow as Reform’s new boss, the Mail can reveal.
Dr David Bull, 56, who backs ‘binning the burka’, will replace Zia Yusuf whose resignation as chairman last Thursday threatened to plunge Nigel Farage’s party into chaos.
The new chairman is a former hospital doctor who moved into broadcasting shortly after he qualified at London’s St Mary’s Medical Hospital School in 1993. His most prominent presenting role was on paranormal reality TV show Most Haunted Live!.
The openly gay Dr Bull, 56, follows the Scottish born Yusuf, 38, who is the son of Sri Lankan Muslims. ‘I think we are ticking the right diversity boxes,’ joked one senior Reform figure today.
Last week, Yusuf, a multi-millionaire businessman, provoked uproar when he criticised Reform’s newest MP Sarah Pochin for calling for a burka ban in the Commons at Prime Minister’s Questions. The next day Yusuf, 38, unexpectedly quit to the relief of many of his senior colleagues who found him difficult to work with.
