Zack Polanski’s boat, council tax, and electoral law

Zack Polanski and his partner lived on a boat for three years, and described it as their “amazing home”. Mr Polanski was registered to vote at a nearby bungalow. If, as seems likely, that was his main residence, then Mr Polanski and his partner should have paid council tax there – but they didn’t. Mr Polanski’s team says he only stayed at the boat “occasionally” – but if that’s true, then registering to vote at the bungalow may have been a criminal offence.