Polanski ‘not fit to lead a party’ after Golders Green tweet, says minister – UK politics live

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Polanski's 'abhorrent' response to Golders Green attack shows he is unfit to 'lead a political party', minister says Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of UK politics. The transport secretary, Heidi Alexander, has said Zack Polanski’s retweeting of a post suggesting the police used excessive force when they arrested the suspect in the Golders Green attack last week was “disgusting” and “absolutely abhorrent” as she claimed he was not “fit to lead a political party”. Polanski retweeted , without comment, a post on X alleging that officers were “repeatedly and violently kicking a mentally ill man in the head” when he was already incapacitated by a stun gun. The Green party leader has since apologised after being publicly criticised by the head of the Metropolitan Police, who said his actions undermined the confidence of officers to deal with dangerous people. Speaking to Sky News this morning, Alexander said: double quotation mark I thought it was disgusting what he did and absolutely abhorrent. Those police officers ran towards danger, they were armed only with a Taser that they had already discharged. The guy still had a knife in his hand. They were armed with their courage and their training. …