Former President Donald Trump accused the UK’s Labour Party of illegal foreign campaign contributions and election interference in a filing with the Federal Election Commission earlier this week.
The complaint points to media reports that senior Labour Party strategists met with members of Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris’ campaign team, as well as a social media post by a Labour Party official saying nearly 100 current and former staff members planned to travel to battleground states in the US to campaign on the vice president’s behalf.
The complaint referenced a report by the Washington Post indicating that strategists affiliated with the Labour Party have been providing guidance to Harris on how to regain the support of disenchanted voters and effectively run a center-left campaign. Additionally, it cited a Daily Telegraph article suggesting that Morgan McSweeney, Sir Keir Starmer’s chief of staff, and Matthew Doyle, his director of communications, attended a convention in Chicago where they met with Harris’s campaign team.
The filing is unlikely to gain traction; campaigns routinely meet with representatives of foreign governments and foreign nationals are permitted to serve as campaign volunteers as long as they are not compensated for their work, according to US campaign rules.
