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£25.00Allegations of interference by the UK Labour Party in the American presidential election have been played down by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer. This comes after Sofia Patel, Head of Operations for the Labour Party, posted on LinkedIn that she had “ten spots available” for anyone willing to campaign for Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Kamala Harris in North Carolina, promising free accommodation. The post, which was available to the public, has since been removed. However, the Trump Campaign has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission in Washington, calling for an investigation, claiming it was “blatant foreign interference”.
Although foreign nationals are permitted to work as volunteers on campaigns in the US as long as they are not paid, the Trump Campaign complaint has accused senior Labour figure Morgan McSweeney, chief of staff to the Prime Minister, and Matthew Doyle, director of communications, of attending and meeting with Ms Harris’ campaign team at the Democratic Convention in Chicago in August. Deborah Mattinson, Sir Keir’s former director of strategy, is also said to have attended a meeting in Washington in September to brief Ms Harris’ campaign team on Labour’s election-winning approach.
Sir Keir said the Labour Party has volunteers who go to America to assist in elections, adding that they are not paid and stay with other volunteers. The complaint filed by the Trump Campaign is both theatrical and pointed, referencing US independence 250 years ago when, it claimed, previous British government representatives sought to go door-to-door to canvass. However, Sir Keir said the row would not affect his relationship with President Trump, with whom he dined at Trump Tower in New York last month, nor would it prevent him from working with whoever is elected President in November.
There is no information as yet on whether or not the Federal Election Commission will begin an investigation
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