Sir Keir Starmer’s lot have hardly had an easy start in government, what with the cronyism rows, freebie fiasco and frockgate. Now the Prime Minister is dealing with a backlash from one of the presidential candidates, after Labour activists flew stateside to canvas for Kamala Harris. This week, Donald Trump’s campaign even complained about the matter to the Federal Election Commission – alleging that the volunteering by Labour party members, alongside the reported contact between senior party figures and the Harris campaign, was ‘illegal foreign campaign contributions and interference’. Crikey.
Trump ally Nigel Farage hasn’t been shy on the matter, insisting last week that ‘this is direct interference by the governing Labour party’. And this morning on Times Radio, the Reform leader was pulling no punches, fuming that seeing the Labour lot campaign for Kamala was ‘not good politics’ or ‘grown up’. Farage added scathingly:
Trump actually is a very forgiving person – but it takes a little bit of time. It
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