Trump campaign accuses UK's Labour Party of election 'interference'

Donald Trump's run has accused British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's Labour Party of "blatant overseas interference" successful the U.S. statesmanlike predetermination aft its volunteers travelled to the United States to assistance run for Kamala Harris.

The run has filed a ailment with the Federal Election Commission successful Washington, calling for an contiguous probe into what it called "apparent amerciable overseas nationalist contributions made by the Labour Party of the United Kingdom and accepted by Harris for President".

The ailment cited media reports and a present deleted LinkedIn station from Sofia Patel, caput of operations astatine Britain's Labour Party, who wrote that "nearly 100" existent and erstwhile Labour enactment unit would beryllium travelling to the U.S. successful the coming weeks to assistance elite Harris, the Democratic vice-president.

"Those searching for overseas interference successful our elections request to look nary further than [the] LinkedIn post," the missive of ailment said. "The interference is occurring successful plain sight."

The centre-left Labour Party, which sees the U.S. Democrats arsenic its sister party, swept to powerfulness successful July. Starmer has since sought to physique ties with Trump, gathering him astatine his Trump Tower during a sojourn to New York successful September.

Starmer, travelling connected a formation to Samoa, told reporters helium did not expect the ailment to strain relations with Trump if helium wins the predetermination connected Nov. 5, adding Labour volunteers had gone to beauteous overmuch each U.S. election.

"They're doing it successful their spare time, they're doing it arsenic volunteers, they're staying I deliberation with different volunteers implicit there," helium said.

"That's what they've done successful erstwhile elections, that's what they're doing successful this predetermination and that's truly straightforward."