After a wildly successful first eight months, Zack Polanski is facing a chronic case of boom and bust. The Green leader has endured a fairly torrid end to an otherwise successful local elections campaign, amid a string of stories about his online posts, previous claims and array of candidates standing in Thursday’s local elections. In the past 24 hours, three different stories have dropped. First, the Times revealed that Polanski had once claimed he was a ‘spokesman’ for the British Red Cross. Then, the Daily Mail reported that 30 council candidates were being probed for alleged antisemitism – following Andrew Gilligan’s revelations about Green candidates in The Spectator.

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