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Steve Reed says it’s ‘perfectly normal’ for political activists to volunteer in elections in other countries
good morning. Environment Secretary Steve Reid was holding a morning briefing where he expected to speak about the appointment of an independent commission led by Sir John Cunliffe, a former senior Treasury official and former deputy governor of the Bank of England. The future of the fishing industry. Details were explained last night. Click here for the news release and click here for Helena Houghton’s story.
But Reid instead spent the morning fending off the rather bizarre story that the Trump campaign had filed a complaint with U.S. election officials accusing the Labor Party of interfering in the U.S. presidential election. Find out more about Eleni Courea here.
In an interview with the Today program, Mr. Reid said it was “totally normal” for political activists to volunteer on campaigns in other countries. In an interview with the Today program he said:
It’s a personal choice what you do with your free time, and it’s actually quite normal for people interested in politics to go from one country to campaigning for a sister party in another. I have seen British Americans do the same thing in elections.
He also said the pro-Democratic volunteer work was not officially organized or funded by Labor.
None of this was organized or paid for by the Labor Party. This is simply individuals using their own time and their own money.
Asked about Labour’s operations chief Sophia Patel’s post on LinkedIn calling for more people to volunteer and saying housing would be sorted out, Mr Reid said he needed to speak to her on the Today show. “The Labor Party has nothing to do with organizing this,” he said.
Asked whether the fact that the post was deleted was an admission that it contained inappropriate language, Reed simply said he hadn’t seen it.
Of course Reed is right. Such volunteer work is commonplace (Home Secretary Yvette Cooper helped Bill Clinton’s campaign at one stage in 1992), and if it is Nigel Farage who is meddling, the Trump campaign is He doesn’t seem to care much about the interference. Leader of British reform. In some ways, the most interesting feature of this story is the fact that we seem to be the only people on earth who think that Keir Starmer’s Labor Party is ‘far left’.
However, there is a good chance that Mr. Trump will win the US presidential election in two weeks, and Mr. Starmer has been careful to show respect to Mr. Trump as prime minister, and the relationship between the two is “good.” Trump is unpredictable and vindictive, so this could be a serious problem. A story that resonates.
We are not likely to hear much from Mr Starmer on this subject as he spends the day traveling to the Commonwealth summit in Samoa. But we have PMQs, so it might be talked about there.
The agenda for the day is:
11.30am: Defense Secretary John Healy holds press conference with German Defense Secretary Boris Pistorius after signing the UK-Germany defense deal.
Midday: Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner faces off against Shadow Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden at PMQs.
After 12:30 p.m.: Parliamentarians will discuss regulations regarding the blood compensation system for infected people.
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Updated to EDT 04.08
