British Labour employees campaigning for Kamala Harris within the US is “normal”, a minister has stated.
Round 100 Labour Celebration employees are understood to be volunteering for the Democratic nominee forward of the US election on 5 November.
In a now-deleted publish on networking website LinkedIn, the Labour Celebration’s head of operations stated: “I have nearly 100 Labour party staff, current and former, going to the US in the next few weeks, heading to North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
“I’ve 10 spots accessible for anybody accessible to go to the battleground state of [North] Carolina – we’ll kind your housing.”
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Tech tycoon Elon Musk additionally claimed Labour volunteering on the Democrat marketing campaign was “illegal”.
Nigel Farage, the Reform chief, additionally posted on X that Labour volunteering amounted to “direct election interference” – regardless of the very fact he had beforehand deliberate to assist Donald Trump together with his presidential marketing campaign earlier than he was elected as an MP.
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US legislation forbids any monetary contributions, donations and expenditure from overseas nationals in any elections.
Nevertheless, they’re allowed to volunteer in campaigns “as long as the individual is not compensated by anyone for the services”.
“This is a normal thing that happens in elections.”
Labour employees have travelled to the US throughout earlier presidential elections to marketing campaign for the Democratic nominee.
Senior Conservatives within the UK, notably former prime minister Liz Truss, have additionally attended high-profile Republican occasions, together with the Nationwide Conference in July.
In response to Labour employees campaigning for Ms Harris, Truss posted on X: “President Trump is definitely going to win now.”
As lately as final month, Keir Starmer’s former pollster, Deborah Mattinson, reportedly met Ms Harris’s marketing campaign workforce in Washington to share recommendation on the election following Labour’s landslide victory in July.
Final month, the prime minister met with Mr Trump in New York, the primary face-to-face assembly between the pair.
Conservative MP Robert Jenrick, who’s competing in opposition to Kemi Badenoch to turn out to be the subsequent Tory chief, has stated if he had been an American citizen he would vote for Mr Trump on 5 November.
