Zack Polanski, Green Party leader, told Labour it is a "government of cowards"

Zack Polanski accused Labour of being a “government of cowards” for allegedly not “telling the truth about migration”.

During BBC Question Time’s Immigration Special, the Green Party leader said the issue was “personal” to him.

He explained how his Jewish great-grandparents fled Latvia and then Ukraine because of pogroms, before being forced out of Nazi-occupied Poland, too.

He said: “This is what people have done throughout history. They have fled because they’ve moved because of war or persecution.

“Or they’ve moved because of people they love, or they want to travel.”

Presenter Fiona Bruce then asked if Polanski stood by his party’s policy of a world without borders, essentially meaning anyone who wants to come to the UK can come.

He replied: “Yes, in the ideal world, that is the policy I want.

“I recognise that we are not in an ideal world. The........

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