Council deputy 'inciting racism and hate' – mayor

THE North East mayor has accused Reform’s deputy council leader in Durham of “inciting racism and hate”.

- DANIEL HOLLAND

Labour mayor Kim McGuinness has hit out at “hideous” comments made on social media by Darren Grimes, the former GB News presenter who became an elected councillor earlier this year.

Coun Grimes posted a video to his X account on Sunday, August 24, of his brother on a boat trip in Scarborough alongside a number of nonwhite people - including children.

He wrote alongside it: “My brother in Scarborough for a bank holiday weekend away. I had to ask him if he was on a dinghy to Dover, but then I realised there are women and children on board.”

The Labour Government has been under mounting pressure over recent weeks over the number of migrants crossing into the UK on small boats and the use of hotels to house asylum seekers.