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Green Party leader Zack Polanski has given Tory leader Kemi Badenoch a savage put down in response to her branding him ‘ridiculous’.
Badenoch used the term to refer to Polanski in an interview with the Mirror. In the interview, she said: “He is a ridiculous character. We should not be allowing ridiculous characters anywhere near the levers of government or power.”
She went on to add: “I think the country would be in a very dangerous place if they allowed a man who has been going around telling people that he knows how to grow women’s breasts, in any kind of power, whether it’s leading the country or even in a coalition with Labour. We know what Zack Polanski’s plans are. He wants to have a rainbow coalition to keep the left – the hard left – in power.”
Polanski was later himself interviewed by the Mirror. In that interview, he was asked for his response to Badenoch’s comments.
Polanski said: “There was a by-election this week in Liverpool where the Green Party won. The Conservatives got eight votes. Not eight per cent. Eight votes. I think Kemi Badenoch should think about that.”
Polanski was referring to the Aigburth by-election for Liverpool City Council, in which the Greens gained the seat from the Lib Dems.
The full results of that by-election were:
- Green Party – 782 votes, 45.02%
- Liberal Democrats – 637 votes, 36.67%
- Labour – 177 votes, 10.19%
- Reform UK – 121 votes, 6.97%
- Independent – 12 votes, 0.69%
- Tories – 8 votes, 0.46%
Chris Jarvis is head of strategy and development at Left Foot Forward
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