Police probe Green leader Polanski after guillotine post

Green Party leader Zack Polanski has deleted a social media post and is facing police inquiries after sharing an image of a man wearing a T-shirt depicting a guillotine alongside the slogan "We're only making plans for Nigel." The post, shared on his Instagram account on July 27, prompted Reform UK leader Nigel Farage to call for Polanski's arrest, with his party reporting the matter to police.

The image showed an unidentified man at a Green Party event wearing a black T-shirt featuring the guillotine image and the phrase, which references a 1979 song by the band XTC. Farage shared a screenshot of the post on social media, writing that if he had posted anything similarly inciteful, he would expect to be arrested, and Polanski should be as well. Reform UK officials said the party is in the process of reporting the post to police.

Reform UK's spokesperson for home affairs, Zia Yusuf, described the post as "incitement to murder" and said it was "staggering" that it appeared weeks after the murder of Reform UK spokeswoman Ann Widdecombe. Widdecombe was killed in her home in an attack prosecutors have described as planned and targeted. Yusuf stated that Polanski had posted a photo of...