Zack Polanski has been left embarrassed after fresh comments were unearthed defending his former party’s decision to hike university tuition fees.
Mr Polanski defected from the Liberal Democrats to the Green Party in 2017 after failing to get selected as their candidate in a by-election.
But the Mail has discovered that he was still issuing full-throated defences of the centrist party’s time in coalition with the Tories as late as November 2016.
These included backing Nick Clegg’s decision to join the austerity-pushing government, and the trebling of tuition fees.
Despite the hard-left Green Party condemning Labour‘s move to raise fees in line with inflation,
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