Freebie gala dinner lands Labour party in hot water

Labour referred to police for alleged by-election bribery

The by-election in Gorton & Denton is looking like a two-way race between the Green Party and Reform UK, but Labour are still fighting to win.

According to a new report in the Telegraph, Labour are throwing the kitchen sink at the race. Or, to be more specific, they’re using the sink — and everything else in the kitchen — to prepare delectably illegal meals for potential voters (allegedly):

Labour referred to police over freebie gala dinner for 600 Gorton & Denton voters – attended by senior Labour figures including deputy leader Lucy Powell
Electoral law bans using food and drink to corruptly influence voters
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Will anything happen as a result of this?

As we’ll get to, probably not — not if Reform’s own by-election scandal is anything to go by.

Labour hosts “freebie gala dinner”

As reported by the Telegraph, the dinner took place at a South Asian restaurant, and fed 600 people. The venue had posters up showing images of Labour candidate Angeliki Stogia.

Speaking at the dinner, Labour deputy leader Lucy Powell said Gorton & Denton should vote for Stogia or:

we’re going to end up with Reform in Manchester and we’re not having that

Presumably eluding to the multiple paedophile-related scandals engulfing the Starmer government, Powell also said:

We have not got everything right. We have tried our best and we have done some really good things … but I understand we haven’t got everything right.

That’s certainly one way of putting it.

For reference, Labour’s recent paedophile-related scandals include:

So yeah, they haven’t “got everything right”; that’s true.

Will anything come of this?

As the Telegraph also reported, the police investigated Reform UK for a buffet last October, but dropped the investigation. The Telegraph added:

The party had provided a buffet to supporters before a council by-election in Northamptonshire.

According to guidance from the Electoral Commission, the law “does not apply to ordinary hospitality”.

As you can imagine, then, Labour are confident they’ll get off with this. One of their spokespeople said the report is a “desperate, politically motivated move”.

It’s also the case that the police have dropped a case into Reform related to the Gorton & Denton by-election:

For the third time.

But who’s counting, eh?

What’s a little electoral fraud between friends. https://t.co/A5mJqd3Kwp

— Don McGowan (@donmcgowan) February 14, 2026

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Comments 2

Taxiarch says:

5 months ago

Few still remember the campaigning of the pro white African stooges at the time of the independence of Zimbabwe; the locals told me that Muzorweza and Sithole would organise huge electoral rallies. They were indeed huge. Partly because they had access to vast reserves of money and a shared determination to stop the Patriotic Front of ZANU and ZAPU from gaining power, they (the UANC) were able to provide every attendee with a free chicken dinner. Everybody sensibly went for the free food and then voted for the PF. The UANC won only t h r e e out of 80 seats reserved for Africans in the Zimbabwean House of Assembly.
lesson: free dinners don’t win votes. Credibly promising real change does.

Samuel Cameron says:

5 months ago

Why does every report on this story fail to point out that all the attendees
were Asian (using the British usage of the term) judging by the videos.
Obviously there could have been other ethnicities present but there did
not seem to be. It is not trivial or racist to pay attention to this as one might
well ask : are labour holding events like this for other groups than the people
here., I expect the inquiry will reveal by what means people happened to be
here…if they were specifically lured by incentives then it can not be passed
off as legitimate feeding of activits.