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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Peter Walker Senior political correspondent

Starmer says Polanski ‘is not fit to lead a political party’ after Golders Green police criticism

Zack Polanski
Polanski retweeted a post the Met police commissioner called ‘inaccurate and misinformed’. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA

Keir Starmer has condemned Zack Polanski as “disgraceful” and unfit to head a political party after the Greens’ leader shared a social media post critical of the way police tackled the suspect in the Golders Green stabbings.

The prime minister said any criticism of the police involved in the arrest was unfair on officers having to make split-second decisions in a moment of potentially grave danger.

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