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Americano: is Labour interfering in the US election?

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🗓️ 23 October 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Keir Starmer can’t even fly to Samoa without another international British embarrassment breaking out. The latest is an angry accusation from Donald Trump’s campaign that Labour is committing the crime of ‘election interference’ in the United States. ‘The British are coming!’ screamed a typically camp Trump-Vance official press release last night. The campaign denounced Britain’s ‘far-left’ governing party for attempting to subvert democracy by sending almost 100 of its activists across the pond to sway American voters. But are the British actually coming?

Freddy Gray speaks to James Heale, The Spectator's political correspondent. 

Produced by Oscar Edmondson. 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, Freddie Gray here, the Deputy Editor of Spectator, trying to remind you that there is a big Spectator event.

0:07.3

It's an Americano election special event with Nigel Farage, and it's being held at the Emanuel Centre in Westminster.

0:15.4

This Thursday, October the 24th, tickets are selling out, and you can get yours by going to spectator.com.

0:24.5

Dot.uk.uk.org. Do it.

0:34.4

Hello and welcome to the Americano show, a series of discussions about American politics, power and prejudices.

0:43.4

In each episode of this very brilliant show, we will bring you one very well-informed, expert, guest, or possibly two, depending on how we're feeling. And together we will try and get

0:57.3

to the bottom of what is going on in the United States. I'm delighted to be joined by the spectator's

1:05.0

very own James Heel, our political correspondent. And I should apologise to American or non-British listeners to the show

1:13.5

because this is going to be quite a limey-centric edition of the podcast, because we're going to be

1:18.9

talking about the Labour Party in Britain and the American election. There has been a big fuss in

1:24.8

recent days over the fact that the Labour Party or Labour Party

1:28.8

activists are meant to be going. We don't really know whether it's actually happening or not.

1:34.9

Are meant to be going. About 100 volunteers are meant to be going to help canvas for Kamala Harris,

1:39.8

which the right, Elon Musk, Nigel Farage and others, have decried as election interference.

1:45.7

And then last night, to make this story into a bigger drama,

1:49.5

the Trump campaign announced that it has filed a federal complaint

1:53.4

about the Labour Party doing this on the grounds that it is election interference.

1:58.4

Yes.

1:59.3

Kirstama flying to Samoa was grilled about this, the prime minister,

2:04.6

and he seemed a bit baffled and a bit sort of grumpy that he was being asked about it

2:10.3

because he said, oh, they're volunteers, as far as I know, it's not a big deal.

2:13.6

And the line from Labour has very much been, this is a kind of voluntary scheme. It's being

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