# Coffee House Shots: Reform suspends Tim Montgomerie after Spectator interview

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Podcast: [Best of the Spectator](https://stenobird.com/podcast/best-of-the-spectator-45373)
Published: 2026-08-18T23:01:00+00:00
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After saying that Zia Yusuf needed to 'become a team player' in an interview on Coffee House yesterday, Reform UK responded, and decided that they would rather Tim Montgomerie were not in their squad at all. After the story broke this morning that Montgomerie had his membership of the party suspended, Noa Hoffman is joined by Tim Shipman and James Heale to react to the latest developments on the right of British politics. Produced by Henry Lloyd Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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