Donald Trump’s team has filed a legal complaint against the Labour Party requesting an immediate investigation into “blatant foreign interference” in the upcoming US election
Donald Trump’s team claiming Labour is interfering in next month’s knife-edge US election is a ludicrous allegation.
Did Trump complain when brief Tory PM Liz Truss visited the US to endorse him? Or Nigel Farage? Of course he didn’t.
There is a long history of British volunteers from all political parties crossing the Atlantic to support Democrats and Republicans.
Whether any of them ever made a blind bit of difference to the result is another matter.
This concocted fuss is intended to incite Trump’s nationalist and, too often, racist base and suck the air out of rival Kamala Harris’s attacks on the increasingly deranged Donald.
Keir Starmer knows Trump winning would be a disaster for the US, Anglo-American relations and the democratic world.
Footie fan fair
Football is a beautiful game with an ugly side so we applaud Labour’s commitment to setting up a regulator to give supporters a powerful voice.
Too often fans have been ignored, exploited and abused by club owners. But no longer.
Requiring them to be consulted on everything from ticket prices to changing the name of a ground means the people’s game will involve the people who love their club more than any billionaire investor.
Lobbying against the scope and scale of the regulator by richer owners and the Premier League only illustrates why it’s necessary to embed fan power so never again can elite clubs plot to breakaway and form a European Super League or take supporters for granted.
2024’s top telly
Tonight’s the night so get ready to draw the curtains, turn on the box and settle down at 8pm for the best TV of the year.
The Daily Mirror Pride of Britain awards on ITV1 will be an emotional rollercoaster making you laugh and cry, occasionally at the same time. Enjoy.
