Reform council leader says she has launched hunt for ‘cowards’ behind leaked video

Linden Kemkaran told fellow Kent councillors those who disagreed with decisions would have to ‘suck it up’

• Leaked video exposes bitter infighting at Reform UK’s flagship Kent council

The leader of Reform UK’s flagship local authority has told her fellow councillors that she launched a hunt for the “cowards” who leaked a recorded meeting in which she said those who disagreed with decisions would have to “fucking suck it up”.

Bitter divisions among Reform members of Kent county council, one of 10 controlled outright by Nigel Farage’s party, were laid bare at the weekend by the Guardian in a leaked video of a chaotic internal meeting.