‘Hypocrite!’: New Polanski scandal erupts during local elections
The Daily T
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4.1 • 702 Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
As the country goes to the polls in crucial local and devolved elections, The Daily T asks: Is Zack Polanski a foolish ideologue, a dangerous charlatan, or both?
Polanski recently shared a social media post criticising the police’s conduct when arresting a man suspected of stabbing two Jewish men in Golders Green. As his personal poll rating tanks, Camilla and Tim explain why Polanski’s position on anti-Semitism and the growing Islamist support for his party make him a danger to Britain.
Later, Sir John Curtice, Britain’s favourite pollster, tells The Daily T that Labour is facing its worst-ever result in London and the election of more pro-Gaza independents is “almost inevitable”.
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Highlights
- Zack Polanski's hypocrisy on antisemitism revealed on polling day
- Polling guru Sir John Curtice says Labour set for worst ever result in London
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph |
| 0:07.0 | As Britain votes, we ask, is Zach Polansky a stupid ideologue, a dangerous charlatan, or both? |
| 0:17.0 | Today the Telegraph exposes the Green leaders rank hypocrisy on anti-Semitism, and we'll |
| 0:22.7 | explain why his sectarian politics poses a real threat to Britain. And I spoke to Britain's |
| 0:28.1 | leading pollster Professor Sir John Curtis, who says Labour could get its worst ever result in London |
| 0:34.4 | and that the election of pro-Gaza independence is almost inevitable. |
| 0:39.4 | Welcome to The Daily Tea with me, Tim Stanley. |
| 0:41.6 | And me, Camilla Tomini. |
| 0:53.3 | Tim, before we get into the local elections, the latest idiocy from Zach Polanski, Starmageddon and all the rest of it, |
| 1:00.4 | I do want to just further very briefly probe something you told me as you limped up the stairs to the studio, |
| 1:05.5 | which is that you fell off a climbing frame yesterday. |
| 1:08.2 | I don't know why you're making a big deal of this. |
| 1:09.8 | I was walking my dog. It's amusing me. I saw a climbing frame. I making a big deal of this. I was walking my dog. |
| 1:10.8 | It's amusing me. I saw a climbing frame. I thought, I'll have a go. What do you mean? It's one of those |
| 1:16.1 | ones where you pull your, you lift yourself up and you pour yourself along like that. Oh, wow. |
| 1:20.8 | And I did okay, but then I realized I'd had enough. |
| 1:26.5 | Sometimes when you're in the middle of that kind of ladder walk with arms, your arms can give up on you really quickly. |
| 1:32.5 | The arms just go, what are you doing me? |
| 1:34.6 | You're not falling anyone. |
| 1:35.9 | Have you hurt yourself? |
| 1:36.8 | Alas, I have the physique of Russell T. Davies. |
| 1:39.7 | Anyway, so I landed very hard on my leg and I'm in considerable pain. |
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