The Campaign Company

The Campaign Company
Founder	•  David Evans •  Jonathan Upton

The Campaign Company was founded in October 2001 by Labour Party officials David Evans and Jonathan Upton.

Conflict of interest

In May 2020, following Keir Starmer's selection of David Evans as General Secretary of the Labour Party, TCC came under scrutiny:

In 2002, The Times reported that General Secretary David Triesman ordered an inquiry into Aline Delawa’s undeclared conflict of interest in handling internal party selections while she was the secretary of David Evans’ company, which was campaigning for candidates in those internal party selections.

Aline Delawa, David Evans’ wife and Head of Labour’s Constitutional and Legal Affairs Unit, oversaw the rules governing the selection of Labour candidates while she was Secretary of The Campaign Company, set up by David Evans.

A year after David Evans’ role as Assistant General Secretary ended, the new General Secretary of the Labour Party David Triesman announced that there would be an inquiry into the conflict of interest.

According to The Times Triesman said he was “surprised” at the disclosure and ordered an inquiry into the affair and he also admitted that if Delawa worked in a government department instead of the Labour Party, it would not be allowed as it might be seen to be a conflict of interest.

Triesman said he would never have put Aline Delawa in a position where she might have been compromised, such as handling a dispute over ballot papers or a very close result.

The Campaign Company’s website boasts that it can help “elected representatives, candidates, organisations and issue-based groups who now need a more professional approach to successfully campaign to get their message across”. When asked why his wife had been made company secretary when he founded the company, David Evans said “I can’t remember.”

 

Employees on Wikispooks

Employee	Job	Appointed	End
Aline Delawa	Director	26 June 2020
Aline Delawa	Company Secretary	23 August 2001	26 June 2020
David Evans	Co-founder and Director	23 August 2001	26 June 2020
Morgan McSweeney	Director of Communities	October 2007	November 2009

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