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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Peter Walker and Ella Creamer

Reform councillor’s boast about removing ‘trans-ideological’ books from children’s library sections falls flat

Kent county council county hall in Maidstone
Webb’s message was retweeted by Linden Kemkaran, the council leader. Photograph: Loop Images Ltd/Alamy

A boast by a Reform UK councillor that he ensured the removal of “trans-ideological material and books” from the children’s section of his county’s libraries has fallen flat after it emerged that no such material ever existed there.

Paul Webb, the cabinet member for communities at Kent council, whose portfolio covers libraries, posted a video to X in which he said he had been “recently contacted by a concerned member of the public who found trans-ideological material and books in the children’s section of one of our libraries”.

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