Oh dear. As election campaigns draw to a close, Sir Keir Starmer has found himself under scrutiny at the eleventh hour. A Telegraph article about his ‘pragmatic’ approach to US relations that states Labour has been talking to Donald Trump’s team on a ‘daily basis’ has been slammed as ‘fake news’ – by none other than top GOP strategist and Trump’s own campaign manager himself. Oo er.
The Telegraph piece states that ‘staff working for David Lammy, the shadow foreign secretary, have been in near-constant talks with Trump’s team for weeks, since he met the former president’s campaign manager Chris LaCivita in Washington in May’.
But Chris LaCivita took to Twitter on Tuesday night to blast Labour’s claims that the party has been in regular discussions with Trump, writing: ‘FAKE news apparently on the other side of the pond as well. Other than a 10 min perfunctory meeting there is no contact.’
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