Council sanctioned Julian Leppert after he made unsubstantiated claims about refugees in local hotel

An Essex councillor from the far-right organisation For Britain has been sanctioned for breaching his council’s code of conduct after being accused of inciting racial hatred in an anti-asylum seeker video he posted on YouTube.

A series of sanctions against For Britain councillor Julian Leppert were agreed at a meeting of Epping Forest district council on Tuesday.

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