UK Green leader reported to police over Farage guillotine post

 

UK Green leader reported to police over Farage guillotine post

 

Zack Polanski deleted the post, but Reform UK leader Nigel Farage said he should be arrested.

 

July 28, 2026 11:01 am CET

By Isabel Loubser

https://www.politico.eu/article/zack-polanski-nigel-farage-post-controversy-police-investigation/

 

LONDON — Green leader Zack Polanski has been reported to police by Reform UK after sharing an image which the party claims amounts to “incitement to murder.”

 

The image — reposted to Polanski’s 700,000 followers — shows a man wearing a black t-shirt featuring a guillotine and the words “we’re only making place for Nigel.” — an apparent reference to the Reform UK leader.

 

Polanski deleted the post, but Reform UK said it has reported him to police.

 

In a statement, Zia Yusuf, Reform UK’s home affairs spokesperson, said: “Zack Polanski has posted to his 713k Instagram followers a photo of a man in a T-shirt depicting the beheading of Nigel Farage.

 

“To do this just 2 weeks after our friend Ann was murdered is staggering. This is incitement to murder. It should be treated as such by the police,” he said.

 

Ann Widdecombe, a former Tory minister who was Reform UK’s justice spokesperson, was found dead in her home in Devon earlier this month. Joshua Kerry, a 28-year-old man, was charged with her murder last week.

 

Sharing a screenshot, Nigel Farage wrote on X: “If I was to post anything as inciteful then I would expect to be arrested, and so should Polanski.”

 

A Green spokesperson said: “Zack condemns the image on the T-shirt. He was tagged in a post with 20 images and clicked accept without realizing there was more to it than he had seen.”

 

The spokesperson added that the t-shirt is in poor taste, and said the Greens call on everyone involved in public discourse “to show kindness and not encourage more division.”

 

The Met Police said Monday they had received a third-party report relating to an image shared on social media.

 

“We take reports of this nature extremely seriously, and officers are conducting enquiries into the matter.”