Donald Trump's campaign accused British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's Labor Party of "blatant foreign interference" in the US presidential elections, after some volunteers traveled to support the campaign for Kamala Harris, reports "Reuters", quoted by News.bg.
The Republican candidate's camp has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission in Washington, calling for an investigation into what it calls apparent illegal involvement by Labor in the Harris campaign.
British political volunteers have long traveled to the US ahead of elections, with activists in the centre-left Labor Party usually supporting its sister party, the Democrats, while the Conservatives support the Republicans.
British officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters that some senior Labor advisers had traveled to meet Democratic strategists in recent months in the wake of their landslide victory in July's British election. .
One of the topics they discussed was how Labor took back almost all the former industrial areas it abandoned in 2019.
Labour leader Starmer denied the complaint could damage relations with Trump if the former president wins again on November 5, stressing Labor supporters volunteer in their spare time.
However, complaining is a potential complication.
Trump, who is close to British right-wing politician Nigel Farage and previously had a good relationship with former prime minister Boris Johnson, praised Starmer when the two met in September at Trump Tower.
"This is direct election interference by the ruling Labor Party and is especially stupid if Trump wins," Farage said in a post on the X platform. "Who pays for all this?"
Under US rules, foreigners can volunteer for election campaigns, but cannot make financial contributions.
The FEC previously fined the Bernie Sanders campaign after the Australian Labor Party funded the flights and meals of its volunteers to travel to the US and support his campaign.
Trump's complaint cited media reports and a now-deleted LinkedIn post by Sophia Patel, head of operations at Britain's Labor Party, who wrote that nearly 100 current and former Labor Party officials would travel to the U.S. in the coming weeks to help the campaign of Harris, the vice president of the Democratic Party.
"I am writing on behalf of Donald Trump to demand an immediate investigation into apparent foreign interference in the 2024 presidential election in the form of apparent illegal contributions from foreign nationals," the complaint says.
"Those looking for foreign interference in our elections need look no further than the LinkedIn post... The interference is happening in plain sight."
In a press release titled "The British are coming," the Trump campaign also accused the "far-left Labor Party" of inspiring Kamala's "dangerously liberal politics and rhetoric.
Starmer, on a flight to Samoa, told reporters that Labor volunteers had taken part in almost every election in the US. "They do it in their spare time, they do it as volunteers, they stay, I think, with other volunteers there," he added. "That's really clear."