UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Donald Trump’s legal complaint against his Labour Party over alleged election interference won’t jeopardize their relationship if the former president wins the US election next month.
Lawyers for Trump accused the Labour Party of “blatant foreign interference” and illegal foreign campaign contributions to Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris’ campaign, in a filing with the Federal Election Commission earlier this week. The Republican nominee’s complaint cited a since-deleted social media post by a Labour official saying almost 100 current and former staff members planned to travel to battleground states to campaign on Harris’ behalf.
The Democrats and the UK’s Labour Party have long been ideological bedfellows, and have exchanged advisers, including Democratic strategist Bob Shrum who went on A number of Starmer’s senior advisers including his now chief of staff Morgan McSweeney attended the Democratic National Convention in August. The Democrats didn’t pay for his visit, Labour said. to advise Labour former Chancellor and Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
“Some private individuals are choosing to spend their own money and their free time campaigning in the US during the election,” Reed told Times Radio, adding that “none of this has been organized or paid for by” Labour. “It’s individuals choosing to spend their own free time and their own money in the way that they choose.”
Trump’s campaign said it believed “foreign nationals are exercising direction and control over elements of the Harris campaign” marked by “similarity in messaging” between the two campaigns. British and American voters share concerns on immigration, housing and the economy, though debate over the right to an abortion—a key feature of the US campaign—has long been absent from British politics.
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