British Labour Party sending staff to campaign for Harris

The left-leaning British Labour Party is sending nearly 100 members to U.S. battleground states to campaign for Vice President Kamala Harris ahead of the presidential election.

Sofia Patel, head of operations for the Labour Party, shared the plans via LinkedIn on Wednesday. She said current and former party staff will target key swing states such as North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Virginia.

“I have 10 spots available for anyone available to head to the battleground state of North Carolina — we will sort your housing,” Patel offered in the post.

Patel also noted she plans to arrive in the U.S. two weeks before the election and stay in Washington, D.C., for a few days afterward.

Patel’s profile shows she spent time in the Hillary Clinton campaign from October to November of 2016. She included the description “traveled to the U.S. to campaign for Clinton in the presidential election.”

Reacting to Patel’s post was Sen. Tom Cotton, an Arkansas Republican, who suggested via X that it was “yet another reason to vote for President Trump.” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican, also weighed in, telling the Labour Party it is breaking Federal Election Commission law.

“Foreign nationals are not allowed to be involved in any way in U.S. elections,” Greene wrote via X. “Please go back to the UK and fix your own mass immigration problems that are ruining your country.”

X owner Elon Musk wrote simply, “this is illegal,” in his own post on the matter.

Other members of the Labour Party appear to be invested in the outcome of the November election. The party’s chief operating officer, John Lehal, attended the August Democratic National Convention in Chicago, according to several posts on his LinkedIn and X accounts.

Party strategists for the U.K.’s new prime minister, Keir Starmer, have been advising the Harris campaign, according to The Washington Post. Starmer, who also leveraged his background as a former prosecutor, marked a major victory for the Labour Party in the country’s July election.

The Harris campaign appears to be mirroring much of Starmer’s language in its slogans and advertisements. The Labour Party attacked conservatives with slogans like “stop the chaos” and “turn the page” while Harris has used language like “we’re not going back” and “it’s time to turn the page.”

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