While all eyes today rest squarely on Sir Keir Starmer and the will-he-won’t-he question of surviving a leadership coup, Mr S cannot help but enjoy a glance over the shoulder at dear Zack Polanski. The Green leader has once again – sigh – been caught out over another glaring falsehood on his CV.

Polanski’s past, as described by the man himself, has already proven to be a hotspot for discrepancies, ranging from incorrect claims that he served as a spokesman for the Red Cross to the disputed declaration that he was a member of the National Council for Hypnotherapy. Now, the former breast-enhancer has been caught incorrectly stating he once worked at the Ministry of Justice while campaigning for elected office.

In 2020, on his official campaign website, Polanski boasted of being part of the team at the MoJ collaborating “on their training and diversity programmes”. A natural choice for the king of woke, of course. However, the Telegraph discovered that there is in fact no record of Polanski ever having had a staff card at the Whitehall department.

When the claim was put to the Green leader, he insisted he had taken part in an exciting-sounding “justice assessment committee”, which worked on good old DEI projects. Only… such a committee does not exist. Eventually, Polanski admitted that, rather than working in Whitehall, he had been hired through an agency that provided role-playing scenarios to the quango tasked with interviewing would-be judges. The Judicial Appointments Commission would run mock courtroom exercises for wannabe judges, where no-doubt struggling actors would take up roles including criminals, prison guards and lawyers.

A spokesperson for the Green machine said his time at the agency was covered by a non-disclosure agreement. But the whole saga is enough in itself for Mr S to conclude that Polanski’s CV makes perfect sense. Exaggerations, disputed claims and promises… surely fertile training ground for Green Party life. Good on the guy for being so forward-thinking.