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Green party leader has said he immediately apologised for comments made in 2013 Sun interview, but footage six days later shows him standing by claim Zack Polanski’s claim to have immediately apologised for offering hypnosis intended to increase a woman’s breast size has been cast into doubt by the emergence of a 2013 interview with the Green party leader. In 2013, before he entered politics, Polanski was approached by a Sun journalist to see if a hypnotherapy session could make her breasts bigger. This experience was then written up as an article. Polanski has repeatedly apologised for the episode, saying that while he was approached by the paper, it was entirely his responsibility for agreeing. He has also suggested that the work was more about improving body image than literally changing the body. He said he used a BBC interview the day after the Sun article appeared, in June 2013, to apologise. But according to the BBC, the corporation has been unable to locate an interview with Polanski from that day. The broadcaster has, however, uncovered an interview Polanski did with BBC Humberside six days after the Sun interview which did not appear to include an apology. In excerpts fro

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