Zack Polanski delivers a speech on the first day of the Green Party conference last month.

Zack Polanski will call on the Labour government to ditch its “cruel and heartless” policy towards asylum seekers in Calais.

In his Christmas Day message, the Green Party leader will say that the £476 million of UK taxpayers’ money spent in the French port should instead fund a system based on “compassion, kindness and humanity.”

Polanski spent three days in Calais in the run-up to Christmas, and says he saw UK-funded police officers slashing migrants’ tents and confiscating wood they use to keep warm.

In a video released at 3am on Christmas Day – the same........

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