Donald Trump files complaint against Labour Party over 'blatant foreign interference' in the US election

Donald Trump put his narration pinch Sir Keir Starmer nether strain past nighttime aft accusing nan 'far-left' Labour Party of 'blatant overseas interference' successful nan US election.

Lawyers for nan Republican statesmanlike campaigner person revenge a title to nan Federal Election Commission, accusing Labour of making 'illegal overseas run contributions' which was 'accepted' by Kamala Harris's campaign.

The comments travel weeks aft Mr Trump and Sir Keir held a two-hour meal successful New York, aft which nan erstwhile president said nan Prime Minister was 'very popular'.

Mr Trump's campy cited a now-deleted station connected LinkedIn by Sofia Patel, Labour's caput of operations, which said 100 existent and erstwhile staffers were going to beryllium volunteering successful battleground states specified arsenic North Carolina and Nevada.

Rules astir foreigners moving successful US elections are strict and authorities that they must unpaid and cannot person immoderate payment.

It besides references a study successful nan Washington Post that suggested 'strategists linked to Britain's Labour Party person been offering proposal to Kamala Harris astir really to gain backmost disaffected voters and tally a winning run from nan centre left'.  

The title besides mentioned reports that Morgan McSweeney, nan PM's main of staff, and Matthew Doyle, Downing Street's head of communications, met pinch Ms Harris's squad astatine nan Democratic National Convention successful Chicago complete nan summer.

Mr Trump harked backmost to America's Declaration of Independence from British norm successful 1776 and said that nan UK appeared to person 'forgotten' that nan US wanted to beryllium free .

Help from Labour could magnitude to an 'illegal overseas nationalist contribution', wrote Gary Lawkowski, lawman wide counsel for nan Trump campaign.

That would beryllium particularly nan lawsuit if 'foreign nationals' are 'exercising direction' complete nan Labour staffers arsenic could good beryllium nan case, nan archive stated.

Campaign co-manager Susie Wiles said successful a connection that Americans will 'once again cull nan oppression of large authorities that we rejected successful 1776', different motion to America's rejection of British rule.

She said: 'The Harris campaign's acceptance and usage of this forbidden overseas assistance is conscionable different feeble effort successful a agelong statement of anti-American predetermination interference'.

In comments that will apt beryllium embarrassing for Sir Keir, Ms Wiles added that nan 'far-left Labour Party has inspired Kamala's dangerously wide policies and rhetoric'.

She wrote: 'In caller weeks, they person recruited and sent statement members to run for Kamala successful captious battleground states, attempting to power our election'.

Richard Grenell, erstwhile US Acting Director of National Intelligence and erstwhile ambassador to Germany nether Trump, told Newsnight past night: 'We don’t want to person immoderate overseas interference successful our elections... truthful I deliberation this is simply a beautiful unfastened and unopen case: don’t interfere successful nan American elections and you won’t beryllium sued."

Mr Trump has himself faced allegations of forbidden overseas interference successful his ain campaigns.

In 2016, his critics said that he colluded pinch Russia to triumph nan ballot but nan enquiry into nan matter did not lead to immoderate criminal charges.

A caller book by legendary US journalist Bob Woodward claimed that Mr Trump had met pinch Vladimir Putin astatine slightest 16 times since he near agency successful 2021.

Elon Musk, nan Tesla and X billionaire who has endorsed Mr Trump, said: 'This is illegal.' 

There is nary grounds that Labour had made immoderate financial contributions to nan Democrat campaign.

Downing Street, Mr Doyle and Labour were contacted for comment.

A Labour charismatic told Politico: 'It says a batch astir nan existent level of governmental sermon connected some sides of nan Atlantic that an innocuous LinkedIn station from a statement staffer has turned into a negotiated event'.