Angela Rayner issued a defiant response after Donald Trump’s marketing campaign accused the Labour Get together of interfering within the US election.
Responding to the declare on Wednesday (23 October), the deputy prime minister mentioned political workers campaigning within the US forward of the upcoming presidential election is one thing that occurs inside all events.
Ms Rayner’s response got here after the chief of the Scottish Nationwide Get together, Stephen Flynn, requested her to hitch him in applauding the “courageous Labour workers members who travelled throughout the Atlantic to marketing campaign towards Trump”.
She mentioned: “Folks in their very own time typically go and marketing campaign, and that’s what we’ve seen.
“It occurs in all political events, individuals go and marketing campaign they usually do what they wish to do with their very own time, with their very own cash.”