By Helena Horton
Publication Date: 2026-04-20 15:31:00
In a picture of a blue sky in Birmingham, a diverse group of reform advocates gathered with placards and cheesy grins to knock on doors for their party. Richard Tice, the party’s deputy leader, released the image as proof of the activists’ commitment through thick and thin.
“This is what resilience looks like,” he wrote. “This is what faith looks like.”
But upon closer inspection, for many observers the image looks more like something else: sausage fingers, melted faces and AI manipulation.
After Tice posted the picture on Sunday, they turned themselves in
Reform denied that the activists or the photo were fake, and a spokesperson said: “The photo is real, however the version posted by Richard Tice has been lightly edited using AI, primarily to increase brightness.”
But others saw evidence of a broader forgery – from suspiciously straight lampposts to signs that…
