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

<p>Linden Kemkaran told fellow Kent councillors those who disagreed with decisions would have to ‘suck it up’</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/oct/18/suck-it-up-leaked-video-exposes-bitter-infighting-at-reform-uks-flagship-kent-council">Leaked video exposes bitter infighting at Reform UK’s flagship Kent council</a></p></li></ul><p>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”.</p><p>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 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/oct/18/suck-it-up-leaked-video-exposes-bitter-infighting-at-reform-uks-flagship-kent-council">in a leaked video of a chaotic internal meeting</a>.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/oct/19/reform-kent-council-leader-launched-hunt-for-cowards-who-leaked-recorded-meeting">Continue reading...</a>