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Robert Jenrick has insisted that Zack Polanski clean up his party after the Green leader shared a picture that Reform said was inciting people to murder Nigel Farage.

The eco-socialist party chief quickly took the graphic down and said he shared it inadvertently, but repeatedly refused to apologise when challenged by a national broadcaster.

The Metropolitan Police later cleared Mr Polanski of wrongdoing, which Reform branded as “two-tier policing”.

Speaking at a press conference on Thursday, Mr Jenrick said it was “curious that in this case the police have chosen not to take any action”.

The Reform Treasury spokesman said there had been “numerous examples” of people being arrested for social media posts in the past.

Asked by the Daily Express what Mr Polanski could do to clean up the Greens, Mr Jenrick replied: “Well, he could resign, I suppose?”

Branding the Green Party leader as “a nasty piece of work”, the ex-minister called on Mr Polanski to apologise to Mr Farage.

“What would a decent person do in that situation? Apologise, but he couldn’t bring himself to do that,” he added.

The Greens said police “examined the evidence” and concluded that no crime had been committed.

A spokesman added that the force’s conclusion was “obvious from the start, as was the fact that Reform were always using this as a political football for their own cynical purposes to distract from questions about their own dodgy donations”.

Also during his press conference, Mr Jenrick warned of a 10% “death tax” to fund Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s plan to fix adult social care.

Mr Jenrick said: “We will fight a universal death tax. Not as opposition for opposition’s sake, but because it’s unfair, impractical and cruel on the people of this country.

“Britain would become the single-worst place to hand down money to your kids in the Western world.

“Reform believes that money taxed when you earned it, taxed when you saved it, and taxed when you spent it should not be taxed a fourth time as you are laid to rest.”

A government spokesman said: “There are no plans for this. Fixing our social care system will require building a broad consensus. The old way of doing politics has held up social care reform for decades.

“Our immediate focus is on working together to find common ground and deliver the reforms needed to fix the future of social care, not imposing one particular solution or tax.”