Kamala Harris brings in UK Labour Party strategist to advise her on presidential campaign

Democratic presidential candidate and current Vice President Kamala Harris is reportedly seeking the advice of a top advisor to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer to assist her in the closing months of the presidential campaign

Deborah Mattinson is a senior advisor and strategist to the UK’s Labour Party and has reportedly joined the Harris campaign, according to Politico. Mattinson is scheduled to arrive in Washington, DC next week to meet with Harris-Walz campaign insiders. Mattison is expected to describe how she helped steer Keir Starmer and the socialist Labour Party to a massive win over the Conservative Party of then-Prime Minister Richi Sunak in July.

Mattinson apparently thinks Harris should shunt the “‘hope and change stuff’ to one side” and focus instead on the hard politics of convincing undecided voters in swing states to vote Democrat, Politico reported.

Mattinson is not the only one of Starmer’s advisors to meet with the Harris campaign, according to Politico. The prime minister’s head of political strategy, Morgan McSweeney, and communications director, Matthew Doyle, attended the Democratic National Convention to liaise with Harris’s team.

Although the Labour Party under former Prime Minister Tony Blair made strong connections to the Democratic Party under former President Bill Clinton, Blair also got along well with former President George W. Bush and vigorously supported Bush’s foreign policy and the war in Iraq with British troops.

Under Keir Starmer, the UK government has suppressed free speech, and social media journalists, accused of being “keyboard warriors” in the courts, are being sentenced to three years in jail for writing material on their sites that is purported to be supportive of the anti-immigration riots in Britain. Kamala Harris’ running mate, Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) also doesn’t believe that free speech is a guaranteed right.

Harris has been borrowing policies from Canada’s leftist Prime Minister Justin Trudeau – specially on housing policy. In a fiscal policy that Trump has called "communist," Harris has promised big spending in her first 100 days in office through an "investment" in three million new homes. After Harris released her plans for price controls across economic sectors, "Kamunism" trended on X.

Harris has been accused of flip-flopping on her policy positions, especially on her new-found support for the border wall and her campaign’s insistence that she doesn’t believe in electric vehicle mandates.

In her only media interview since running for president, Harris and Walz sat for a pre-recorded question and answer session with CNN’s Dana Bash.

“Generally speaking, how should voters look at some of the changes that you’ve made that you explained some of here in your policy? Is it because you have more experience now and you’ve learned more about the information? Is it because you were running for president in a Democratic primary, and should they feel comfortable that what you’re saying now is going to be your policy moving forward?” CNN’s Dana Bash asked.

“I think the most important and most significant aspect of my policy perspective and decisions is that my values have not changed,” Harris said, suggesting her views on the environment have “not changed.”