Police investigating criminal damage at Rochester and Strood Labour Office

Local Democracy Reporter Ollie Leader has been getting local reaction.

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00:00A usually busy Labour Party office now partially boarded up.

00:05The aftermath of an attack on Thursday night that led to Kemp Police being called to Maidstone

00:11Rose at 10am on Friday.

00:14And while no one knows exactly what happened to the windows here, party members claim the

00:20incident was politically motivated.

00:22I think it would be an extraordinary coincidence if this was not linked in some way to some

00:27of the rhetoric that we've seen.

00:30Recently, and frankly, that is disgusting.

00:34We live in a democracy and the idea that anyone should become the victim of violence or be

00:44intimidated because of their political beliefs is entirely abhorrent and should be to any

00:50law-abiding Medway resident.

00:53The investigation is still ongoing, it's our understanding police are going door to door

00:58along Maidstone Road to try and get ring doorbell footage or any information that can insist

01:05the ongoing investigation.

01:07Clearly, any political office being attacked in this nature is unacceptable.

01:11I'm sure everybody would agree with that.

01:14I know that colleagues at the Rochester Institute constituents of the Labour Party have reported

01:18the incident to the police.

01:19And obviously we'll wait to hear more while that's been investigated.

01:22The building is insured, but the damage is expected to cost hundreds of pounds.

01:28The anxiety this has created for Labour Party members here in Medway though, is harder to measure.

01:35OLLI Leader in Rochester.