{"id":445627,"date":"2026-02-25T23:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/445627\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T23:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:27:09","slug":"labour-faces-by-election-accusations-over-fictitious-voting-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/445627\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour Faces By Election Accusations Over Fictitious Voting Group"},"content":{"rendered":"

Labour <\/a>is embroiled in a dirty tricks row over a campaign leaflet featuring a \u201cfictitious\u201d tactical voting company.<\/p>\n

The offending literature has been put through voters\u2019 doors on the eve of Thursday\u2019s crunch Gorton and Denton by-election.<\/p>\n

It says: \u201cThe Tactical Choice says Vote Labour. Based on a new prediction made in the last 24 hours we are recommending voting Labour.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, no organisation called \u201cTactical Choice\u201d appears to exist.<\/p>\n

The leaflet says it is promoted on behalf of Labour candidate Angeliki Stogia.<\/p>\n

Labour is locked in a three-way battle with the Green Party <\/a>and Reform UK<\/a> in the seat.<\/p>\n

Bookies make the Greens odds-on favourites, followed by Reform and then Labour, for whom Andrew Gwynne won the seat at the 2024 general election with a majority of nearly 13,500.<\/p>\n

Two real tactical voting organisations \u2013 Tactical.Vote <\/a>and StopTheTories.Vote<\/a> \u2013 have already recommended voters back the Greens<\/a> to stop Reform winning.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe leaflet was sent “on behalf of” Labour candidate Angeliki Stogia.<\/p>\n

A Green Party spokesperson said: \u201cIn a final throw of desperation, Labour have made up an entirely fictitious organisation called \u2018Tactical Choice\u2019 referencing them on their final leaflet.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve had to make this up because every actual tactical voting organisation has endorsed the Green Party as the best hope to keep Reform out in this election.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have great faith in the electorate seeing through these desperate Labour lies and uniting behind the Greens in the by-election tomorrow to beat Reform.<\/p>\n

\u201cHope versus hate is on the ballot tomorrow. Let\u2019s make sure the Greens\u2019 message of hope wins.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Labour campaign spokesman did not deny that Tactical Choice appear to have been made up by the party in a bid to sway voters.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cThe Greens have been pumping out fake news and deploying dirty tactics for weeks. We\u2019ll take no lectures from them.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only way to defeat Reform in this by-election is by backing Labour.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Labour is embroiled in a dirty tricks row over a campaign leaflet featuring a \u201cfictitious\u201d tactical voting company.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,48375,2053,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-445627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-green-party","tag-labour-party","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445627","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=445627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}