REVEALED: How Green candidate tried to justify party leader’s claim he could make breasts grow via hypnosis

The Green candidate in the upcoming by-election has tried to defend Zack Polanski’s claim that he can enlarge women’s breasts through hypnotherapy.

The party leader has long been mocked for telling women to ‘imagine yourself with bigger breasts as often as possible’ while working at a clinic in Harley Street.

Now even the Greens’ key ballot candidate in next week’s Gorton & Denton has criticized Polanski’s past ‘misogynistic behaviour’, detailed in a 2013 interview.

But in comments on social media last year, Hannah Spencer also backed him later apologizing for the ‘mistake’ he made.

She welcomed Mr Polanski’s announcement in May last year that he would run for party leader, writing to X: ‘My heart might explode. Just what we’ve always needed.’

When a party activist said that ‘Zack comes with baggage that will humiliate them even more’, he replied: ‘Find me a person without baggage. ‘I prefer someone who is shaped by his mistakes and becomes a more decent person.’

He continued: ‘Most people in the world engage in misogynistic behavior. But unfortunately, very few people think, apologize or continue to dedicate their lives to a more just future.’

Ms Spencer was later told that Mr Polanski had ‘deceived someone’ and that it ‘didn’t matter’ that he had apologized, as he has done numerous times since.

Ms Spencer tried to defend Zack Polanski’s claim he could enlarge women’s breasts through hypnotherapy

She replied: ‘I’m glad this conversation sheds more general light on the standards to which women are physically held.

‘This didn’t start or end with Zack; Maybe now more men can highlight this and speak out against it, because it always seems to be up to women to talk about the damage it does.’

And once again she said she not only ‘adhered to these standards’ but also charged £220 (the going rate for her 90-minute sessions when she was a hypnotherapist) for it. She wrote: ‘I’m really looking forward to seeing your timetable become a space where you constantly raise and challenge the unrealistic (and expensive) beauty and physical standards we women and girls are expected to live up to. ‘Better late than never, eh.’

The upcoming by-election in the North West, sparked by former minister Andrew Gwynne being forced to resign over offensive comments in a WhatsApp group, has turned into a three-way fight between Labour, the Greens and Reform UK.

As allegations of dirty tricks fly, Polanski’s party is accused of claiming to support an academic’s campaign with leaflets and of using misleading bar charts on social media.

A Labor Party source said on Sunday night: ‘It shouldn’t be hard to call out this ridiculous behavior from Zack Polanski. Yet Hannah Spencer seems happy to defend the indefensible.

‘Now Polanski is running a voter hypnosis scam using fake data and fake endorsements to claim the Greens can win in Gorton and Denton. They can’t.

Only Labor can beat ‘Reform’s Tommy Robinson-backed candidate.

‘A vote for the Greens risks them entering through the back door.’