@thetimes: Reform UK has reported Zack Polanski to police after he shared a photograph of a man in a T-shirt featuring an illustration of a guillotine alongside the message: “We’re only making plans for Nigel”. The party have also reported the Green leader to the monitoring officer on the Greater London assembly, who maintains ethics and standards of elected members. Polanski has sat as a member of the assembly since 2021. The Green Party leader shared the post, which appeared to be aimed at Reform UK’s leader, Nigel Farage, on Instagram after a fundraising event for his party in Bristol on Sunday. It included an image of a man wearing a black T-shirt with the guillotine picture alongside the caption, a reference to the title of a song by the English rock band XTC. Zia Yusuf, Reform’s home affairs spokesman, said: “Zack Polanski has posted to his 713,000 Instagram followers a photo of a man in a T-shirt depicting the beheading of Nigel Farage. To do this just two weeks after our friend Ann [Widdecombe] was [killed] is staggering. This is incitement to murder. It should be treated as such by the police.” Farage said that he would “expect to be arrested” if he posted a similar photo, adding: “And so should Polanski.” Ann Widdecombe, a former Conservative MP and Reform UK politician, was killed this month after a man drove 300 miles from Rotherham, south Yorkshire, to her house in Haytor, Dartmoor. She was found dead by the ambulance service nearly 24 hours after she was attacked, having suffered “serious injuries”. Police are investigating the motive behind Widdecombe’s killing. Reform has recorded 1,577 threats against Farage since February, including 597 death threats, predominantly on X. It has identified a cohort of repeat threats from the same people believed to be fixated on the idea of killing him. Met Police officers said that they were investigating the report about the post. “Earlier today we 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 inquiries into the matter.” #zackpolanski #greenparty #farage #reform #ukpolitics

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