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Reform UK's Zia Yusuf furiously hit out at the BBC as he appeared on Laura Kuenssberg's Sunday morning show on March 29. Laura questioned him on Reform's "turbulent week" after offensive comments made by members of the party as she asked about their vetting process after stating that Nigel Farage said it would be "improved". Yusuf immediately stated that all of the claims were abhorrent and continued: "The Party has taken action on that," as he defended the vetting process and said that even if they had a 99.9% success rate, a handful will still fall through.

However, that inspired his point on vetting and news coverage as he took the opportunity to hit out at the BBC, stating it was "reasonable to hold Reform to account", but claimed that the BBC is "pouncing on every single Reform mishap".

He fumed that the coverage is "vastly disproportionate", and said the BBC "completely ignores the far more voluminous misdemeanors and frankly egrigous things from other parties." He went to give an example but the host cut him off to explain that Reform had lost more councillors than other political parties.

Yusuf then shut her down and told her it was "completely incorrect" and said: "A couple of days ago Green Party activists and candidates made a series of horrible anti-semetic comments," he hit out at claims he stated were made by the Green Party and fumed: "The BBC has not even reported on that Laura, I think that's very unbecoming of the BBC."

At that moment, Kuenssberg shut down the interview completely and said they needed to end it there while thanking him for coming in.

The host then turned to focus on online safety as Yusuf left the show. His comments came shortly after Kemi Badenoch also appeared on screen and swiped at the Reform Party as she told host Laura that the Conservative Party was the only "credible" alternative to Labour.

She stated that there was only one party making "proper plans, serious plans" adding that when the General Election comes and people want "proper plans", they will be looking to the Conservative Party.

Badenoch stated that Conservatives are "coming back" and said that people are liking the messaging that the party are putting out.