The arrest of comedian Graham Linehan at Heathrow Airport this week over his Twitter posts sparked outrage across the country – but you can count on the Greens to take an opposing view. While shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick has condemned the move as ‘ridiculous’ and Health Secretary Wes Streeting has even suggested the law could be changed to ensure forces are more focused on tackling in-person crime, the new leader of the Greens, Zack Polanski, told the Beeb that he, er, backs the decision.

Speaking to presenters on BBC Newsnight, Polanski fumed that Linehan’s tweets about transgender people – available here – were ‘totally unacceptable’. He went on:

I accept that people in politics, we get lots of abuse. But we shouldn’t get lots of abuse. I recognise that women get more abus

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