Trump accuses UK’s ruling Labour party of tampering in US election

The Trump campaign has accused the British Labour government of meddling in the presidential race to be decided on November 5.

Filing an official complaint with the US Federal Election Commission, Trump lawyer Gary Lawkowski penned a letter, accusing the UK’s Labour party of “blatant foreign interference, in reference to volunteers traveling to the US to lend their support to the Harris/Walz campaign.

The letter misspells Britain, as “Britian” and makes an unexplicit allusion to its fate in the American Revolution when British forces were made to surrender at the 1781 Battle of Yorktown.

"It appears that the Labour Party and the Harris for President campaign have forgotten the message" the letter said darkly.

Citing media reports from The Washington Post and The Telegraph, the letter alleged that the advice offered to the Harris campaign by Labour bigwigs amounted to “illegal foreign contributions.”

Photo screenshot of Washington Post headline.

However, according to FEC regulations, non-nationals are allowed to volunteer in an election campaign as long as they are not financially compensated.

In this case, Labour’s Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has insisted that none of the volunteers in question were either sent by the party or funded by it.

The BBC understands that all Labour volunteers were in the US to boost the Harris campaign in a personal capacity,

“That’s what they’ve done in previous elections, that’s what they’re doing in this election and that’s really straightforward" Starmer said at a Commonwealth summit in Samoa, reports Euronews.

There is a tradition of UK officials getting involved with the US elections and vice versa. In 1992, Conservative Prime Minister John Major tried to give incumbent George HW Bush a leg up against his rival Bill Clinton, reports the BBC – without success.

Trump’s complaint came with a link to a Wall Street Journal report which said that Labour strategists were advising the Harris campaign how to win over shoulder-shrug voters from a center-left position.

Labour is considered to have moved considerably to the center in the past few years, yet it is described on DonaldJTrump.com as "far-left" and accused of inspiring Democratic candidate Kamala Harris' "dangerous" policies.

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