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Foreign nationals are permitted to serve as volunteers on campaigns in the US as long as they are not compensated, according to Federal Election Commission rules.<\/p>\n
The complaint from the Trump Campaign is both pointed and theatrical.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen representatives of the British government previously sought to go door-to-door in America, it did not end well for them,\u201d it read.<\/p>\n
That is a matter-of-fact reference to US independence around 250 years ago.<\/p>\n
On matters more contemporary it requests \u201can immediate investigation\u201d into what it calls \u201cblatant foreign interference\u201d.<\/p>\n
Speaking to reporters while flying to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Summit in Samoa in the south Pacific, the prime minister said: \u201cThe Labour Party has volunteers, [they] have gone over pretty much every election. <\/p>\n
“They\u2019re doing it in their spare time. They\u2019re doing it as volunteers. They\u2019re staying I think with other volunteers over there.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Trump Campaign letter to the Federal Election Commission also says: \u201cMorgan McSweeney, the Prime Minister\u2019s chief of staff, and Matthew Doyle, director of communications, attended the (Democratic) convention in Chicago and met with Ms Harris\u2019 campaign team.<\/p>\n
\u201cDeborah Mattinson, Sir Keir\u2019s director of strategy, also went to Washington in September to brief Ms Harris\u2019 presidential campaign on Labour\u2019s election-winning approach.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ms Mattinson no longer works for the Labour Party.<\/p>\n
Party sources say Mr Doyle and Mr McSweeney went to the Democratic Convention in their own time, and that the Democratic Party didn\u2019t pay their travel and accommodation costs.<\/p>\n
It isn\u2019t clear who did.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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