Polanski also worked as a\u00a0hypnotherapist<\/a>. In 2013, a journalist for\u00a0The Sun<\/a><\/em>\u00a0requested a hypnotherapy session from him to increase her breast size and body image self-confidence for an article in the paper. Polanski featured in the published article, in which the journalist claimed that her breast size had increased. Polanski has apologised for his involvement, saying that the idea came from the client, that he did not charge for the session, that the therapy was meant to help with bodily self-image rather than physical enlargement, and that the article did not accurately reflect the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n Polanski was active in the\u00a0Liberal Democrats<\/a>, <\/a><\/sup>\u00a0having joined the party in 2015. <\/a><\/sup>\u00a0He stood as a Liberal Democrat council candidate for\u00a0St Pancras and Somers Town<\/a>\u00a0in a 2015 by-election to\u00a0Camden London Borough Council<\/a>. <\/a><\/sup>\u00a0He stood in the\u00a0Barnet and Camden<\/a>\u00a0constituency and was fifth on the London-wide list for the party in the\u00a02016 London Assembly election<\/a>. <\/a><\/sup>\u00a0In June 2016, he heckled\u00a0Jeremy Corbyn<\/a>\u00a0at a\u00a0Momentum<\/a>\u00a0rally, criticising him for being insufficiently supportive of the European Union. Polanski put his name forward in the\u00a0Richmond Park by-election<\/a>\u00a0held in December 2016 but the selection list was restricted to local residents. According to\u00a0Private Eye<\/a><\/em>, Polanski was dismayed at the decision and requested the decision be reviewed, feeling that the party was not interested in what he could contribute as a \"gay Jewish renter\".[19]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n Polanski left the Liberal Democrats <\/a><\/sup>\u00a0and joined the\u00a0Green Party<\/a>\u00a0in 2017 after interacting with former leader\u00a0Natalie Bennett<\/a> \u00a0In November 2018, he was the Green candidate for the\u00a0Lancaster Gate<\/a>\u00a0by-election to\u00a0Westminster City Council<\/a>. <\/a><\/sup>\u00a0He stood as the Green candidate in the\u00a0Cities of London and Westminster parliamentary constituency<\/a>\u00a0at the\u00a02019 general election<\/a>\u00a0and finished in fourth place of six candidates, with 1.7%. <\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Before his election to the\u00a0London Assembly<\/a>, he became treasurer of the Jewish Greens. <\/a><\/sup>\u00a0In 2018, Polanski wrote on Twitter about an alleged conversation that he overheard in a restaurant, involving the then chief secretary to the Treasury,\u00a0Liz Truss<\/a>. According to Polanski, Truss criticised several of her colleagues, saying \"this is a public conversation of a very senior figure who says one thing on TV and clearly believes differently.\" <\/a><\/sup>\u00a0He took part in\u00a0Extinction Rebellion<\/a>\u00a0protests and was arrested at a protest in April 2019. <\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n On\u00a06 May 2021<\/a>, Polanski was elected a Member of the London Assembly, having been third on the Green Party's London-wide list. <\/a><\/sup>\u00a0He also stood in the\u00a0West Central<\/a>\u00a0constituency, where he came third, <\/a><\/sup>\u00a0and for the\u00a0Churchill by-election<\/a>\u00a0to Westminster City Council, where he came fourth <\/a><\/sup>\u00a0on the same day. In the new Assembly, Polanski was elected to be the chair of the Environment committee and to be on the Committee for Fire, Resilience and Emergency Planning and the Economy Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In December 2021, Polanski proposed a successful motion in the London Assembly backing the\u00a0Climate and Ecological Emergency bill<\/a>. It was a cross-party motion with\u00a0Labour<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Liberal Democrat<\/a>\u00a0support. <\/sup>\u00a0In 2021, he was also the Green Party's national spokesperson for democracy and citizen engagement. <\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n On 6 June 2022, Polanski announced his candidacy in the\u00a02022 Green Party of England and Wales deputy leadership election<\/a>. <\/a><\/sup>\u00a0The\u00a0Wales Green Party<\/a>\u00a0gave their endorsement of his candidacy for deputy leader. <\/a><\/sup>\u00a0On 7 September 2022, he was elected Deputy Leader, succeeding\u00a0Amelia Womack<\/a>. <\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n Polanski linked the cost-of-living crisis<\/a> and the climate crisis<\/a>, putting workers' rights at the heart of his platform. Polanski stated, \"A higher wage economy is a green economy, and the Green party will always stand side by side with people who face economic, social and environmental struggles.\"[34]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n In May 2024, Polanski was re-elected to the London Assembly and, in June 2024, re-elected as Chair of the London Assembly Environment Committee.\u00a0During the\u00a02024 United Kingdom general election<\/a>\u00a0campaign,\u00a0The Guardian<\/em>\u00a0praised Polanski for being a \"fluent media performer\". In January 2025, Polanski refused to have an all-male panel in London's Environment Committee insisting on a diversity of speakers. The Conservatives walked out of the meeting calling Polanski's actions \"left wing identity politics\". <\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n In May 2025, Polanski announced his candidacy for the\u00a02025 Green Party of England and Wales leadership election<\/a>. <\/a><\/sup>\u00a0In his announcement, he said that the Greens needed to be able to challenge\u00a0Reform UK<\/a>'s political narrative and to take advantage of political disillusionment with the\u00a0Labour Party<\/a>. <\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Later that week,\u00a0Owen Jones<\/a>\u00a0endorsed Polanski in\u00a0The Guardian<\/a><\/em>. <\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Senior members of the Green Party, including Caroline Lucas, endorsed Polanski's opponents. <\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Polanski has stated that, under his leadership, the party will focus on \"redistributing wealth, funding public services, and calling out the genocide in Gaza\". <\/a><\/sup>Polanski repeatedly linked environmental, social, racial and economic justice. <\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n On 2 September 2025, Polanski was\u00a0elected as leader<\/a>\u00a0of the Green Party in a\u00a0landslide<\/a>, with 85% of the vote share, <\/a><\/sup>\u00a0succeeding\u00a0Carla Denyer<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Adrian Ramsay<\/a>\u00a0in that position and beating a rival bid from MPs Ramsay and\u00a0Ellie Chowns<\/a>. The Green Party saw its membership rise by at least 8% from May to July 2025, when Polanski launched his leadership bid, in what some have described as a \"Polanski surge\".\u00a0Novara Media<\/a><\/em>\u00a0reported that the party had at least 65,000 members, slightly behind its 2015 peak of 67,000. The party confirmed its membership figures to be 68,500 following the announcement of leadership election results. Membership rose to over 75,000 by 19 September following the emergence of in-fighting within the recently announced\u00a0Your Party<\/a> <\/a><\/sup>\u00a0and to 100,000 by 12 October, putting it above the\u00a0Liberal Democrats<\/a>. <\/sup>\u00a0On 19 October, the party announced that their membership numbers had overtaken that of the\u00a0Conservative Party<\/a>. <\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n In his first speech as leader, Polanski said the Green Party aims to replace the Labour Party, and expressed enthusiasm for working with others who were critical both of the Labour Party and of fascism. Polanski also said he could not imagine supporting a\u00a0coalition government<\/a>\u00a0led by Keir Starmer.\u00a0He has said his top priority is the\u00a0Wales Green Party<\/a>\u00a0winning its first\u00a0member of the Senedd<\/a>\u00a0in the\u00a0next Senedd election<\/a>.\u00a0In his first days as leader, he released the first episode of his weekly podcast\u00a0Bold Politics with Zack Polanski<\/a><\/em>\u00a0which reached fourth place in the UK news podcast charts by 8 September, and visited\u00a0Nigel Farage<\/a>'s parliamentary seat in\u00a0Clacton<\/a>\u00a0to speak to the\u00a0Reform UK<\/a>\u00a0seat's constituents. <\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n On 30 September, Polanski was listed in\u00a0Time Magazine<\/a>'<\/em>s 2025\u00a0100 Next<\/a>: the world's 100 most influential rising stars. <\/a><\/sup>\u00a0On 3 October, he addressed his first annual party conference in\u00a0Bournemouth<\/a>, in which he called for a\u00a0wealth tax<\/a>, an\u00a0end to the sale of arms to Israel<\/a>, and criticised other parties for attacking civil liberties and immigrants. <\/a><\/sup>\u00a0In a subsequent interview with the\u00a0Byline Times<\/a><\/em>, he stated his intention to run for parliament in the\u00a0next general election<\/a>. <\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n In December, Polanski visited\u00a0Calais<\/a>, where he witnessed the French police slashing tents, and seizing firewood from sheltering migrants. <\/a><\/sup>\u00a0He then released an alternative Christmas message on 25 December at the same time as\u00a0the King's broadcast<\/a>, declaring the current migration system \"cruel\", encouraging greater empathy towards migrants, and suggesting that it be replaced with a more humane system. <\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n Polanski has labelled his political views as eco-populist, combining environmental, socialist politics and populism. <\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Additionally,\u00a0Politico Europe<\/a><\/em>\u00a0and the\u00a0New Statesman<\/a><\/em>\u00a0have described his approach to leading the Green Party as representing a\u00a0populist left<\/a>\u00a0form of politics. <\/sup>\u00a0Polanski argues that people are unable to consider the\u00a0climate crisis<\/a>\u00a0if they are struggling with day-to-day material concerns such as\u00a0high rent burden<\/a>, and\u00a0high costs of food or heating<\/a>. <\/sup>\u00a0In addition to\u00a0green politics<\/a>, Polanski has advocated for increasing taxes on billionaires, renationalising water companies, challenging lack of government subsidy on\u00a0net zero<\/a>\u00a0policies, and increasing regulations on private corporations. <\/sup>\u00a0Polanski has also supported the introduction of a\u00a0wealth tax<\/a>, believing that tax on wealth is fairer than one focused on work-based income and that it would reduce inequality. <\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n Polanski has stated that he believes that the UK government are active participants in the\u00a0Gaza genocide<\/a>. <\/a><\/sup>\u00a0He has expressed the belief that the British government conflates Jewish people with Israel, and that this \"makes [him] feel less safe as a Jewish person.\" <\/sup>\u00a0Polanski has said that he was raised Zionist but changed his stance when he was older. <\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n Polanski supports replacing the\u00a0first-past-the-post<\/a>\u00a0electoral system in the UK with a\u00a0proportional representation<\/a>\u00a0system,[4]<\/a> <\/a><\/sup>\u00a0and the abolition of the\u00a0House of Lords<\/a>. <\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n Polanski is critical of the UK's relationship with the United States and\u00a0NATO<\/a>, and advocates the UK's eventual withdrawal from NATO. 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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nPolitical career<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Liberal Democrats<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Before leading the Green Party<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Leader of the Green Party<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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<\/a>Political views<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Personal life<\/h2>\n\n\n\n