{"id":453343,"date":"2026-03-02T09:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T09:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/453343\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T09:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T09:08:07","slug":"reforms-darren-grimes-admits-blog-post-image-was-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/453343\/","title":{"rendered":"Reform&#8217;s Darren Grimes admits blog post image was AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The post, published on Grimes&#8217;s Substack and subsequently to his Facebook and X accounts, said Durham County Council had received official notification of nearly 100 households being moved from London to the region in the past two years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said there were 10,000 people on the local authority&#8217;s social housing waiting list and only 3,000 homes became available each year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You don&#8217;t need a degree in advanced mathematics to see that the system is rigged against local people,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Grimes then suggested the Reform-led council&#8217;s proposed new social housing policy would fix the issue, even though the families being moved to the region were being put in private accommodation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Grimes told the BBC there was &#8220;no stopping anybody&#8221; making applications for social housing in County Durham, though figures he provided suggested the majority of people on the waiting list already lived in the county.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said in the blog the party&#8217;s proposed policy would prioritise veterans, people fleeing domestic abuse, and those in overcrowded homes, as well as those with urgent medical needs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The post, published on Grimes&#8217;s Substack and subsequently to his Facebook and X accounts, said Durham County Council&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-453343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}