Keir Starmer swats away claims that Labour volunteers supporting Kamala Harris made ‘illegal’ foreign contributions.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer issued a direct response Wednesday to Donald Trump’s team’s allegations that Labour Party officials sought to interfere in the US election.
Starmer said Wednesday he had “a good relationship” with Trump after the former US president’s campaign accused the Labour Party of “blatant foreign interference” following volunteers who traveled to the United States to help campaign for Democratic candidate Kamala Harris.
En route to a Commonwealth leaders’ meeting on the Pacific island of Samoa, Starmer said the volunteers had paid for themselves and that his party had done nothing wrong.
Reporting from London, Al Jazeera’s Jonah Hull said that Starmer and his ministers had “responded stridently” to the “pretty sensational” allegations.
“They are not so much refuting the basic facts as denying that they did anything wrong,” he said.
The Trump camp quickly ran to the Federal Election Commission in Washington, DC, to complain about what it calls “illegal foreign national contributions” from Labour into the Harris campaign.
