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Every time Nigel Farage has fallen out with his colleagues
Nigel Farage's bust-up with Zia Yusuf is only the latest in a string of extraordinary sackings, resignations and break-ups in his political career.
Mr Yusuf, the former Reform UK chairman, quit on Thursday following a disagreement over a Reform MP's call for a burka ban.
But Mr Farage has fallen out with multiple senior figures in the party and its predecessors, Ukip and the Brexit Party.
Godfrey Bloom
Nigel Farage was forced to suspend the Ukip party whip from economist Godfrey Bloom after he described women at a party conference in 2013 as 'sluts'.
Mr Bloom also hit journalist Michael Crick over the head with the conference brochure.
Mr Farage, furious that one of his conference speeches had been overshadowed, said: 'We can't put up with it. We can't have any one individual, however fun or flamboyant or entertaining or amusing they are, we cannot have any one individual destroying Ukip's national conference and that is what he's done today.'
Douglas Carswell
Douglas Carswell was Ukip's first MP after defecting from the Conservatives in 2014.
He won the Clacton seat twice for the party but soon fell out with Mr Farage, who accused him of trying to block efforts to put him in the House of Lords.
The party leader branded Mr Carswell a 'Tory party posh boy' and accused him of trying to 'undermine everything we've stood for for a very long time'.
Mr Carswell quit Ukip at the 2017 election to stand as an independent, but he lost to the Conservatives.
Suzanne Evans
Suzanne Evans was the most senior woman in Ukip but fell out with Mr Farage over his leadership style in 2015.
She called for two of the Ukip leader's advisers to resign and praised Patrick O'Flynn, economy spokesman, after he accused Mr Farage of being 'snarling and aggressive'.
Ms Evans later went on TV to say Mr Farage was seen as 'very divisive' – a move that saw her sacked and party officials told not to have any further contact with her.
Diane James
Diane James was elected leader of Ukip in 2016 after Mr Farage quit in the wake of the Brexit referendum victory.
But within three weeks, he was back, after senior party figures refused to accept her as leader.
The story of Mr Farage's role in Ms James' departure is not fully understood.
Ben Habib
After leaving Ukip in 2018, Mr Farage set up the Brexit Party, which campaigned for a final ending of ties with the EU, and later Reform UK.
Its co-deputy leader was Ben Habib but he was sacked soon after last year's general election.
He later quit Reform, saying Mr Farage needed to learn that the party 'should not be controlled by one man'. Asked what impact his departure would have, Mr Farage said: 'None whatsoever.'
Rupert Lowe
Businessman Rupert Lowe was one of five Reform MPs elected last year – but his ego clashed with that of Mr Farage.
After he accused Mr Farage in an interview of acting like a 'messiah', Mr Lowe lost the party whip and was reported to police over allegations he had physically threatened Zia Yusuf, then party chairman.
Mr Lowe said at the time: 'I am 67 years old, and I have a 67-year-long unblemished record with the law. These are false allegations, designed to maliciously smear my name and ruin my reputation after I dared to bruise [Nigel] Farage's ego.'
A party source told The Telegraph: 'This is what happens when you mess with Nigel.'
