Labour in fears – Trump will strike back!

Donald Trump will 'unleash all-out war' on Keir Starmer if he wins US Presidential race after row over Labour helping out his rival Kamala Harris.

Donald Trump will unleash 'all-out war' on Sir Keir Starmer if he returns to the White House, according to senior Conservative figures who have been in contact with the former US President's campaign team, ‘The Daily Mail’ reports.

The Tory party sources said that revelations about the Labour Party's alleged interference in the US election on behalf of Trump's Democratic opponent Kamala Harris would have far-reaching consequences if he ends up victorious in the vote in ten days' time.

A source told The Mail on Sunday: 'Do not underestimate the damage Starmer has done to relations with the US - the Trump team are ready and waiting to unleash all-out war on him, because he is perceived as anti-American and a whingeing, liberal bore'.

The Trump campaign has lodged a complaint with the US elections watchdog over 'illegal foreign national contributions' after it emerged that Labour's head of operations, Sofia Patel, asked party staffers if anyone would be willing to travel to the US to 'help our friends across the pond elect their first female president'.

Senior Labour figures, including Morgan McSweeney – now the No10 chief of staff – and director of communications Matthew Doyle attended the Democratic National Convention in August. The delegation included Hollie Ridley, then Labour's executive director of nations and regions, and senior aide Sheila Murphy.

Trump's deputy general counsel argued in a letter to the Federal Election Commission on Tuesday that Labour's campaigning effort was part of a 'far-Left' plot to thwart his campaign.

The complaint states that a 'reasonable inference' could be drawn that Labour was involved in the organisation of the trip, despite the party denying this.

The letter also accused the officials of advising the Harris campaign at the convention, which it said was a breach of rules that do not allow foreigners to make 'contributions' in the US.

Foreign Secretary David Lammy has refused to apologise for calling Donald Trump a “neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath”.
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Keir Starmer has thrown his support behind his foreign secretary who called Donald Trump a “neo-Nazi sympathising sociopath”. David Lammy will remain in his post until the next election, Downing Street said just hours after Mr Trump’s victory was secured, writes ‘The Independent’.

The vote of confidence came after the prime minister was asked to apologise for his frontbencher’s attack, in an article written when he was a backbench MP in 2018.

A year earlier Mr Lammy also tweeted: “Yes, if Trump comes to the UK I will be out protesting on the streets. He is a racist KKK and Nazi sympathiser.”

Mr Lammy has sought to build links with the Trump campaign since becoming foreign secretary, but the election result has shone a new spotlight on his comments, prompting questions about his ability to work with the next US president.

In the same article in 2018, the Tottenham MP wrote about Mr Trump’s first official visit to the UK, saying that he would be protesting the then-government’s “capitulation to this tyrant in a toupee”.

“Trump is not only a woman-hating, neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath,” he wrote, “he is also a profound threat to the international order that has been the foundation of Western progress for so long.”

The prime minister came under pressure over the comments at prime minister’s questions in the Commons from the new Tory leader Kemi Badenoch.

Referring to a dinner between the PM, Mr Lammy and Mr Trump in September, she asked: “Did the foreign secretary take that opportunity to apologise for making derogatory and scatological references, including, and I quote, ‘Trump is not only a woman-hating Neo-Nazi sympathising sociopath, he is also a profound threat to the international order’, and if he did not apologise, will the Prime Minister do so now on his behalf?"

Sir Keir dodged the question, saying that the meeting had been “very constructive”.

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