UK PM says ties with Trump ‘good’ after US election ‘interference’ claims
Al Jazeera
Keir Starmer bats away accusations that Labour volunteers backing Kamala Harris made ‘illegal’ foreign contributions.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has responded directly to allegations from Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s team that Labour Party officials sought to interfere in the upcoming US election.
Starmer said he had “a good relationship” with Trump on Wednesday, a day after the former US president’s campaign accused the Labour Party of “blatant foreign interference” after volunteers travelled to the United States to help campaign for Democratic candidate Kamala Harris.
En route to a Commonwealth leaders’ meeting on the Pacific island of Samoa, Starmer told reporters that his party had done nothing wrong and that the volunteers had paid for themselves.
Reporting from London, Al Jazeera’s Jonah Hull said that Starmer and his ministers had “responded stridently” to the “pretty sensational” allegations.
“They are not so much refuting the basic facts as denying that they did anything wrong,” he said.
