Rayner issues defiant response to Trump’s Labour election interference claim

Angela Rayner issued a defiant response after Donald Trump’s campaign accused the Labour Party of interfering in the US election. Responding to the claim on Wednesday (23 October), the deputy prime minister said political staff campaigning in the US ahead of the upcoming presidential election is something that happens within all parties. Ms Rayner’s response came after the leader of the Scottish National Party, Stephen Flynn, asked her to join him in applauding the “brave Labour staff members who travelled across the Atlantic to campaign against Trump”. She said: “People in their own time often go and campaign, and that’s what we’ve seen. “It happens in all political parties, people go and campaign and they do what they want to do with their own time, with their own money.” Watch more on Independent TV: The Independent is the world’s most free-thinking newsbrand, providing global news, commentary and analysis for the independently-minded.