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Trump accuses Britain's ruling Labour Party of election interference

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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer says his party has done nothing wrong in U.S. election.

Trump 's team asks the Federal Election Commission to investigate after a senior Labour figure posted a rallying cry for current and former staffers to travel to battleground states and campaign for Vice President Kamala Harris ahead of the Nov. 5 vote.

Foreign nationals are allowed to volunteer during election campaigns but must not participate in any decision-making process or incur expenses of more than $1,000 .

In 2016 the FEC fined the Australian Labor Party and the campaign of Bernie Sanders after the ALP paid for its delegates to campaign for the left-wing Democrat . Help also goes the other way across the pond. A year earlier , in 2015 , Jim Messina and David Axelrod , both former aides to then President Barack Obama , were hired as advisors by Britain 's Conservative and Labour parties respectively. Messina 's Conservatives came out on top..