Reform UK's home affairs spokesman, Zia Yusuf, has condemned party members who were filmed pulling a protester's hair and grabbing her head during Nigel Farage's keynote speech at the party's conference in Birmingham. West Midlands Police have asked the woman involved to come forward, saying they had not received a direct complaint but wanted to carry out further enquiries after the footage circulated widely online. The incident matters because it exposes tension within Reform between condemning violence and senior figures appearing to minimise or mock the treatment of protesters.

Demonstrators were ejected from the conference hall on four separate occasions during Farage's Friday address, including two women who unfurled a banner reading "Reform works for billionaires"; the activist group Climate Resistance claimed responsibility and said it was "horrified at the violence" shown towards attendees. While Yusuf said he condemned "people punching people," other senior figures struck a different tone: ex-Tory defector Nadine Dorries said disruptors would not get "gentle treatment," and party chairman Lee Anderson mocked protesters, telling them to "get a job, get a life and get a shower" and joking about a pensioner who lost his walking stick during an ejection.