Trump isn’t running in Britain’s election. That hasn’t stopped him from getting in the middle.

British officials have been taken aback by such overt election interference by a close ally.

But in an act of political jujitsu, Corbyn embraced the fight, tweeting out Trump’s harsh remarks as he sought to weaponize the U.S. president’s deep unpopularity among Britons for his own aims…

Patrick Dunleavy, a political science professor at the London School of Economics, said, “Of course Labour would love to run against Boris as Trump.”

Dunleavy said, “It’s a solid card to play.”

But, he said, Johnson was seeking to keep Trump at arm’s length. “It doesn’t win him any votes,” Dunleavy said.