(DailyAnswer.org) – Kemi Badenoch, the new leader of the Conservative Party in Great Britain, didn’t hold back this week when she criticized the ruling Labour Party for sending its representatives to help Vice President Kamala Harris’s struggling campaign in the U.S. presidential election.
During Prime Minister’s Questions, a weekly session where the Prime Minister answers questions from Parliament, Badenoch directly challenged Prime Minister Keir Starmer. She focused on Labour’s decision to send members like Sofia Patel, the Labour Party’s operations head, to aid Harris’s campaign.
Patel had previously shared that nearly 100 Labour Party staff members, both current and former, were on their way to battleground states in the U.S., such as North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, to help rally support for Harris. Patel even offered open spots to anyone available to join the campaign effort in North Carolina, promising to handle their housing.
Republican Senator Tom Cotton (R-AK) seized on the news, saying it was “another reason to vote for President Trump.” Badenoch echoed this sentiment with a jab, saying, “I’m sure President Trump will be grateful to Keir Starmer for sending Labour’s North London activists to campaign for his opponent.”
But Badenoch’s criticisms didn’t stop there. She also pressed Starmer on whether Foreign Secretary David Lammy would apologize for a harsh article he wrote in 2018 about Trump, where he called him a “woman-hating, neo-Nazi-sympathizing sociopath” and “a profound threat to the international order.” In that piece, Lammy had openly announced his plans to protest Trump’s visit to London, where a large “Trump Baby balloon” was planned to float over Parliament.
Badenoch pointed out that while Labour leaders now claim they want to be a “constructive opposition,” Lammy’s past comments on Trump show otherwise. She asked Starmer if Lammy had apologized to Trump during a recent dinner meeting. “If he didn’t apologize, will the Prime Minister do so on his behalf?” she asked.
Starmer responded by saying he and Lammy had met with Trump, calling the meeting “very constructive” and avoiding any mention of an apology.
Badenoch wrapped up her comments by noting that Starmer’s refusal to distance himself from Lammy’s statements showed Labour’s continued bias against Trump.
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