Britain Prime Minister Starmer plays down Trump team claims of interference 

London — 

Britain’s premier curate Keir Starmer connected Wednesday played down allegations made by Republican Party statesmanlike campaigner Donald Trump's squad of "blatant overseas interference" by his Labour Party successful the U.S. election, saying it was mean for its volunteers to campaign.

Starmer besides insisted that helium maintained "a bully relationship" with Trump, having met him for talks past month.

The erstwhile president's ineligible squad filed a ailment to the U.S. Federal Election Commission alleging the "British Labour Party made, and the [Kamala] Harris run accepted, amerciable overseas nationalist contributions."

The filing cited media reports that Labour officials, including the premier minister's caller main of staff, Morgan McSweeney, traveled to the United States to counsel the Harris campaign.

Trump's squad besides submitted a now-deleted LinkedIn station by Labour manager of operations Sofia Patel calling for volunteers to question to North Carolina, saying "we volition benignant retired your housing."

Foreign nationals are allowed to unpaid successful U.S. elections but whitethorn not beryllium compensated.

Starmer told media traveling with him to a Commonwealth gathering connected the Pacific land of Samoa that his enactment had done thing wrong, and that the volunteers had paid for themselves.

"The Labour enactment has volunteers, who person gone implicit beauteous overmuch each election," helium said.

"They're doing it successful their spare time, they're doing it arsenic volunteers, they're staying, I think, with different volunteers implicit there.”

"That's what they've done successful erstwhile elections, that's what they're doing successful this predetermination and that's truly straightforward."

He besides denied suggestions that it could harm relations with Britain's astir important state should Republican enactment campaigner Trump bushed Democrat Harris and unafraid a instrumentality to the White House.

Starmer said helium had "established a bully relationship" with the erstwhile president, having met him past period for a two-hour meal astatine the erstwhile existent property tycoon's Trump Tower residence successful New York.

Adding to the dispute, Trump surrogate Elon Musk wrote connected his X tract connected Tuesday that "this is war" aft leaked documents from run radical Center for Countering Digital Hate appeared to amusement that 1 of its objectives was to "kill Musk's Twitter," X's erstwhile name.

The run radical and think-tank is led by a erstwhile Labour advisor and McSweeney is simply a erstwhile director.