Evans’s campaign business ‘in deep trouble’

Departing Labour general secretary handed business to his wife to ‘avoid’ conflict of interest but it may now be on brink of collapse, according to local media

The Campaign Company founded by now-former general secretary David Evans – who announced his sudden departure just before Labour’s conference, without giving a reason publicly, earlier this month – is under threat of being struck off the register of businesses at Companies House, because it hasn’t kept its financial records up to date. The information that has been presented suggests it is in deep trouble.

According to its most recently-filed (2021) accounts, The Campaign Company is around £178,000 in debt. Evans signed the company over to his wife, party staffer Aline Delawa, when he became Starmer’s hand-picked party general secretary, claiming that this would avoid any conflict of interest. The company was subsequently awarded at least one contract by Labour.

The firm was first threatened with being struck off by Companies House in early 2023 and again in February 2024. It’s 2022 accounts are months overdue.

As general secretary Evans oversaw a massive data breach in which members’ data was lost to a criminal ‘ransomware’ attack on the company to whom he had outsourced member management. His associates’ ‘Anonyvoter’ system, used by the party under Evans’s tenure, is considered by many to have been manipulated to rig candidate selections and other party votes. The party awarded the contract to Anonyvoter without a competitive bidding process. Then-deputy leader of Croydon Council, Alison Butler, has a child with Evans. Croydon Council awarded contracts worth almost £200,000 to Evans’s company over a four-year period. None of these concerns impeded Starmer’s determination to impose Evans as general secretary.

Most notoriously – or it would be, if it hadn’t been ignored by the so-called ‘mainstream’ media – Evans and his boss covered up the ‘criminal’ and ‘sadistic’ exploitation and sexual abuse of Muslim victims of domestic violence, by the staffer and alleged lover of a right-wing member of Starmer’s front bench, Khalid Mahmood. The pair repeatedly ignored a whistleblower’s attempts to get them to take action to protect the women. Mahmood, who sacked whistleblower Elaina Cohen, did not challenge the evidence of one of the many victims when she testified at the ensuing and successful employment tribunal for wrongful dismissal.

None of this is expected by insiders to be any obstacle to Evans being appointed by Starmer to a cushy seat in the House of Lords, just as happened with the previous and equally controversial right-wing general secretary, Iain McNicol – assuming the deeply-unpopular Starmer is still in Number 10 for long enough. Rumours abound of ‘open secrets’ among journalists about to become public and of ‘chaos behind the doors of Downing Street’, though these cannot yet be verified.

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