Labor Secretary Angela Eagle is interfering in US politics, accusing Donald Trump of spreading “hatred” against immigrants and the Tories of creating space for “open racism on our streets.”

A senior Labour minister has interfered in US politics by accusing Donald Trump of helping to create the conditions for the rise of “overt racism” in Britain.

Dame Angela Eagle, who is responsible for dealing with illegal migration, accused the former president and current challenger for the White House of using social media to stir up “hatred” against migrants in the US.

At the Labour Party conference in Liverpool, she also accused – without naming them – senior Tories of engaging in a “toxic discourse” that gives racists a “flashing yellow light” while the party tries to prevent an exodus of voters to the reform party before the elections.

The comments by Dame Angela, a former Labour leadership challenger, are likely to cause a stir in 10 Downing Street and across the US, coming just hours before Sir Keir Starmer leaves for New York to visit the United Nations.

The Prime Minister and other senior ministers, including Foreign Secretary David Lammy, despite previous criticism of Trump, have been careful not to appear to be taking sides in the run-up to the US election on November 5.

The Prime Minister and other senior ministers, including Foreign Secretary David Lammy, have been careful not to appear to be taking sides in the run-up to the US election on 5 November.

The comments by Dame Angela, a former Labour leadership challenger, are likely to cause a stir in 10 Downing Street and across the US, coming just hours before Sir Keir Starmer leaves for New York to visit the United Nations.

According to the Guardian, Border Protection Minister Dame Angela said on the sidelines of a conference that it is often difficult for migrants in the UK to “stand up against the constant toxic rhetoric against immigration and immigrants that is becoming increasingly louder not only in the UK but in all western countries”.

“I mean, Trump is doing the same thing. If you look at some of the memes he's using right now around the wall thing, it's amazing how much vitriol it's generated,” she said at the meeting organized by the Refugee Council.

She added: “We had a discourse because the right wing of the Conservative Party was increasingly obsessed with the measures of the reform, which were indeed very harmful: the exclusion of asylum seekers, the exclusion of people in general and the creation of a space, I think, for open racism on our streets.

“Because let’s be honest: the way some ministers talked about asylum seekers was, let’s say, at least a yellow flashing light for those who wanted to take part in a discussion about people whose skin colour was not the colour they wanted.

The Prime Minister and other senior ministers, including Foreign Secretary David Lammy, despite previous criticism of Trump, have been careful not to appear to be taking sides in the run-up to the US election on November 5.

Keir Starmer met with US President Joe Biden at the White House earlier this month for bilateral talks, but has not met either candidate since taking office as prime minister.

“Let's just say it like this. And I think that creating such a toxic debate around the issue of asylum is a real problem,” she said.

Keir Starmer met with US President Joe Biden at the White House earlier this month for bilateral talks, but has not met either candidate since taking office as prime minister.

Last week, Mr Lammy, an outspoken critic of Mr Trump in the opposition, declined to condemn him for his baseless claim that Haitian immigrants eat domestic cats and dogs.

The former president, who hopes to return to the Oval Office after the U.S. elections in November, made the remarks during a debate with his White House rival Kamala Harris.

Mr Lammy said there was a “fierce” political debate in the US and he did not want to comment on domestic issues as he had to work with whoever was in the White House.