Awkward moment new Reform UK chair David Bull is shown his tweet calling Nigel Farage an idiotSource: Good Morning Britain
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00:00In your tweet, when you said his comments are ill-judged, prejudiced and dangerous,
00:04those three words will come up a lot when people describe Nigel Farage.
00:10So it's pretty extraordinary that they've come up in a tweet that you yourself wrote and you're now the chairman.
00:15But you've got to look through, everyone's going through everything I've ever tweeted.
00:18Yeah, no, but I'm... I've seen all of that coming up over the last...
00:20But we're now talking about policy, reforms policy.
00:23Because those are words people associate...
00:25But let's be very clear here, which is...
00:26And for instance, let me just ask the question.
00:28Zia Youssef, he resigned because of the question asked about the burqa.
00:34That's not true.
00:35Which... Well, it's one of the reasons that he resigned.
00:37He said it's not part of party policy.
00:39That's not why he resigned.
00:40Well, why did he resign then?
00:41He says that he resigned, he was absolutely exhausted and he was working all hours that God sends.
00:45He had so many jobs.
00:47So I think when he was asked the burqa question, I think that was probably the final straw for him.
00:51We've had a long conversation about it.
00:53I spoke to Zia the night before last...
00:55Does Zia now think that the burqa should be banned?
00:58He said on a vote, he would ban it.
00:59OK, so he's now...
01:01So he's now been recruited to that policy.
01:03Because a lot of people...
01:03Well, he has his own mind.
01:04We are...
01:04We asked Chris Bryant, the government minister yesterday, whether the burqa should be banned.
01:10He couldn't think of any reason why it should be.
01:13Why not?
01:14Well, look, I think...
01:16That was almost exactly the words that he used.
01:18Well, I...
01:18But what he said...
01:19So it's a free vote.
01:21It's a matter of conscience.
01:23So it is now party policy, is it?
01:24No, it is not party policy.
01:26But I live in East London and I have seen massive demographic shift.
01:31I don't think in a country like Britain, walking around with your face covered is good in terms of communication and social cohesion.
01:39So I'm very anxious about the rise of people who think it's OK to hide your faces.
01:45We had a conversation yesterday about whether it's a burqa, whether it's crash helmets, whether it's scarves or whatever.
01:50But...