Enda Brady: UK correspondent on Donald Trump accusing the UK Labour Party of meddling in the US election

Ahead of the upcoming US election, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has accused the UK's Labour Party of trying to interfere with the results.

The Trump campaign has alleged that Labour sent party members over to key battleground states to campaign for his opponent, Kamala Harris.

UK correspondent Enda Brady says the Trump campaign has cited a LinkedIn post saying 100 party staffers were headed to the US to campaign for Harris.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
With us. Now we have in the Brady, a UK correspondent.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Hey in there, Hey, Heather, great to speak to you.

Speaker 1 (00:05):
Now. As Kyostamas squid away this business about the Labour
people going to work for Kamala.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Harris, well he may think he has, but Donald Trump
is livid about this, and he's describing it as anti
American election interference from the far left. That's how he's
describing Keir Starmer and the Labor Party. Now you might
have called Jeremy Corbyn's Labor Party far left, but I'm
not sure he could say the same about Starmer. However,

(00:31):
I think the story has legs. It's going to run
because today we find out that not only have one
hundred members of the Labor Party paying their own way,
I should say they're flying on their own money, they're
going on annual leave time. One hundred Laborer Party members
are going to campaign for Kamala Harris in the United
States in the next ten days. But on top of

(00:51):
that we now find out this morning here the twenty
senior people from the party, including the new chief of staff,
the Irish guy Morgan McSweeney, actually attended the Democrats' national
convention in August and that Labor paid for him to go. Now,
Labor are now saying that he hasn't in any way
advised Kamala Harris or the Democrats, but Trump's people are

(01:13):
absolutely livid.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
Yeah. Now, I mean I sort of accept that they
are going there on their own dime and on their
own time. But the problem with that story is did
the Labor Party not offer to house them all? Which
suggests something a little bit more coordinated.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
So, yes, there was a LinkedIn post from Labour's head
of operations. She has now not only deleted the post
because it went viral in America and was picked up
by the Trump people very very quickly. She's I see,
she's also deleted her LinkedIn profile completely. But look, the
damage is done, and it's part of the complaint that
Trump's people have now filed in the United States citing

(01:49):
election interference. But in all honesty, you know, imagine if
there was an election in New Zealand and someone knocks
on your door campaigning and they've traveled from the United
States Ireland for that matter, and they're trying to convince you,
you know, you're just gonna laugh at them. In the
same way as if we had an election here as
we had in July, and an American knocked on my
door campaigning for someone who's just jetted in, You'll be thinking,

(02:11):
jog on pal.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
Yeah, because it's sort of your own business, isn't it.
You don't want other people getting involved.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
Yeah, yeah, you can see Trump's point. But look, he's
not going to make a blind bit of difference one
hundred people going out and handing out a few leaflets
for Kamala Harris. You know, if he hasn't won it
by now give up?

Speaker 1 (02:26):
Yeah too, right, Hey, now, what do you make of
the fact that cops who are accused of murder will
be given the anonymity until they are actually convicted, if
they are convicted.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
I think it's interesting. I think the police community certainly
welcomed this. There's been huge fallout this week on the
case of Sergeant Martin Blake. So he was a firearms
cop and still is from the Metropolitan Police accused of murder.
Now the jury came back after three hours and twenty
minutes and found him not guilty, so he has been

(02:57):
cleared of all criminal wrongdoing whatsoever, and that core case
has now ended. However, he's possibly looking at gross misconduct
charges by the Police Complaints Authority here. And on top
of that, the Home Secretary of that Cooper has come
out and said that from now on she wants it
to be the ani police officer accused of murder while

(03:18):
working in the line of duty should have anonymity. There
have been a lot of problems with this case and
we now know of course that the guy who was
shot dead in South London two years ago behind the
wheel of this high powered audi that police were trying
to stop, Chris Cabba, that he was a senior member
of a very serious gang and organized crime group in

(03:38):
central London. So it has been a huge talking point
this week.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
How would you get married at Bellmole as.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
An Irish Republican cassguarite enough? Not if Charles paid me?
Not if he paid not literally, if he paid the
I don't think I'd live it down. But no, listen
on a serious note, it's a good story today in
the papers here today because bal Moral is costing Charles
and ultimately the British taxpayer six million en Z dollars

(04:07):
a year to run now he doesn't even live there.
And on top of that, from my understanding, when he
goes to Scotland. He prefers Burke Hall, which was his
grandmother's place, the queen Mother's Castle in Scotland. Charles stays there.
So he's got a conundrum to solve all this money
that's basically going up in smoke. So his idea is
there is a big building called the Queen's Building. It's

(04:29):
just a few meters away from the castle at bal Moral.
Charles has put in a planification and what he wants
now to do is to open it up to weddings,
not that many a year, but enough to pay the bills.
So I think people will bite his hand off because
it's the same setting it really is.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
Yeah, very good point. Actually he's turning them so he's
tuning them into a tourist attraction, isn't he. I thank
you for that in to appreciate it in the brady
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