UK Labour Party staffers campaigning for Harris are volunteers, PM says, rejecting Trump interference claim

The United Kingdom’s Labour Party is pushing backmost Wednesday connected allegations from the Trump campaign that it is providing "illegal overseas assistance" to Kamala Harris. 

Representatives for Trump announced past nighttime they person "filed a Federal Election Commission (FEC) ailment against the Harris-Walz Campaign and the Labour Party of the United Kingdom for amerciable overseas run contributions and interference successful our elections." 

"The far-left Labour Party has inspired Kamala’s dangerously wide policies and rhetoric. In caller weeks, they person recruited and sent enactment members to run for Kamala successful captious battleground states, attempting to power our election," Trump-Vance Campaign Co-Manager Susie Wiles said successful a statement. 

However, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Wednesday that immoderate members of his Labour Party that are successful the U.S. are acting arsenic volunteers and "what they’ve done successful erstwhile elections, is what they’re doing successful this election," according to The Associated Press. 

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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, center, is denying claims from the Trump run that his Labour Party is interfering successful the U.S. predetermination successful favour of Kamala Harris. (AP/Alex Brandon/Jaimi Joy/Jacquelyn Martin/Pool)

"I spent clip successful New York with President Trump, had meal with him, and my intent successful doing that was to marque definite that betwixt the 2 of us, we established a bully relationship, which we did, and I was precise grateful to him for making the time," Starmer added. "Of course, arsenic premier curate of the United Kingdom, I volition enactment with whoever the American radical instrumentality arsenic their president in the elections." 

The filing from Trump’s run mentions a now-deleted societal media station from Labour Party person Sofia Patel, who took to LinkedIn to solicit assistance from existent and erstwhile members of the enactment who would beryllium consenting to run for Harris successful the cardinal battleground authorities of North Carolina. 

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Patel indicated successful her station that she had already organized "nearly 100 Labour Party staff" to stump crossed the cardinal battleground states of Nevada, Pennsylvania and Virginia but had astir 10 spots near for anyone consenting to caput to North Carolina.   

"We volition benignant your housing," Patel assured anyone interested.  

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Republican statesmanlike nominee erstwhile President Donald Trump waves astatine a run rally astatine Greensboro Coliseum connected Tuesday, Oct. 22, successful Greensboro, N.C.  (AP/Alex Brandon)

An lawyer for the Trump run wrote successful the filing that "the connection of her station supports a tenable inference that the Labour Party volition concern astatine slightest question and facilitate country and board." 

"Press reports further enactment a tenable inference that the Harris run is alert of these efforts, and frankincense has accepted a prohibited overseas nationalist contribution," helium continued. "Moreover, adjacent if the individuals traveling to the United States were ‘volunteers,’ the Labour Party appears to beryllium utilizing enactment resources, including paid unit time, to coordinate their travel." 

Democratic statesmanlike nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks arsenic she attends a run lawsuit with erstwhile Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., connected Monday, Oct. 21, 2024, successful Brookfield, Wis. (AP/Morry Gash)

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The Harris run did not instantly respond Wednesday to a petition for remark from Fox News Digital. 

Fox News' Alec Schemmel contributed to this report.