UK Socialist Leader Insists He’s Still Good Friends With Trump After Party Staffers Plan Trip To Help Harris

United Kingdom (U.K.) Prime Minister Keir Starmer — a self-admitted socialist — is insisting he’s very good friends with former President Donald Trump, even as Trump’s campaign has recently filed a complaint against Starmer’s party for sending staffers to campaign for Kamala Harris.

There were reports last week that a high-level Labour Party staffer was organizing a trip to fly approximately 100 party staffers into the U.S. to campaign on behalf of Harris’ campaign, raising concerns about potential foreign election interference. Trump’s campaign filed a legal complaint against the Labour Party following the reports, but Starmer brushed aside concerns that the move was illegal and assured reporters on Wednesday that he was still “good friends” with Trump, according to multiple reports.

Starmer is now the prime minister of the U.K. after the Labour Party won the country’s elections in July, ousting the Conservative Party and former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak from power. Starmer will have to work with either Trump or Harris on maintaining U.S.-U.K. relations depending on which candidate wins in the November presidential elections.

“I spent time in New York with President Trump, had dinner with him and my purpose in doing that was to make sure that between the two of us, we established a good relationship, which we did,” Starmer told reporters. “We had a good, constructive discussion and, of course, as prime minister of the United Kingdom I will work with whoever the American people return as their president.”