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Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has accused Sir Keir Starmer’s “far-left” Labour Party of interfering in the US election.

The Trump-Vance campaign filed a complaint with the US Federal Election Commission (FEC) accusing Labour of illegal foreign campaign donations.

In a statement, the campaign’s co-manager Susie Wiles campaign claimed: “The far-left Labour Party has inspired Kamala’s dangerously liberal policies and rhetoric.

“In recent weeks, they have recruited and sent party members to campaign for Kamala in critical battleground states, attempting to influence our election.”

The complaint referenced a Washington Post report that suggested “strategists linked to Britain’s Labour Party have been offering advice to Kamala Harris about how to earn back disaffected voters and run a winning campaign from the center left”.

It also mentioned a Daily Telegraph report that suggested Morgan McSweeney, Sir Keir Starmer’s chief of staff, and Matthew Doyle, his director of communications, “attended a convention in Chicago and met with Ms Harris’s campaign team”.

The complaint also cited a now deleted LinkedIn post from Sofia Patel, head of operations at the Labour party, who wrote that “nearly 100” current and former Labour party staff would be travelling to the US to help elect Ms Harris.

Mr Trump’s lawyers argue such support amounts to “contributions” from foreign actors, in violation of US campaign finance laws.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

it would take about two seconds to point out liz truss flying to the us to support republicans on behalf of the tories

[–] [email protected] 14 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Farage almost didn't stand in the general election because he wanted to be in the US helping Trump. It'd be interesting to see how much time he has spent there vs time spent helping his constituents since.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

regime whores building an international coalition is cute.

amazing how wagies can't do the same...

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago

inspired Kamala’s dangerously liberal policies

I never knew Trump felt so strongly about VAT on private schools.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago

This man is an absolute joker.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago

Starmers labour is far left... Apparently 🤣

[–] [email protected] 6 points 23 hours ago

Good luck. Labour ran on a "Not the Tories" campaign. Which worked because of the 12 or so years of Tory madness.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

That's a lot (of nonsense), I don't know where to start.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Feels like a pre-emptive tu quoque attack.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Probably fine, based on the little information we know about this. But another example of how the new Labour administration doesn't understand optics of being in government. You can do this in opposition.... and you can boast about it on socials. But being in government is a different game.

I still doubt this will go anywhere, though.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

What are you talking about?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago

It's quite naïve that the Labour party have allowed any hint of election interference to even be perceived. Sorry, was that not obvious from reading the article?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 23 hours ago

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