Tag Archives: The Campaign Company

Company founded by Labour’s Evans under threat of strike off

Posted on March 6, 2023 by insidecroydon

While the quality of the management of the Labour Party by its General Secretary David Evans remains hotly disputed among those on the left, the public relations consultancy he established just more than 20 years ago, The Campaign Company, looks … Continue reading →

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Grey man’s appointment places Gray with Croydon clique

Posted on March 4, 2023 by insidecroydon

Political editor WALTER CRONXITE delves into the shadowy south London connections that Sue Gray will encounter when she starts work as the Labour leader’s Chief of Staff The grey man of British politics, the terminally boring Keir Starmer, now has … Continue reading →

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#TheLabourFiles: Whip letters prove they knew hack was illegal

Posted on October 5, 2022 by insidecroydon

The Al Jazeera investigations broadcast last week included correspondence from a retired barrister to Labour’s General Secretary that identified the handling of stolen data by party officials in Croydon as unlawful. But David Evans did nothing about it. By STEVEN … Continue reading →

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Reed group fined for slow declaration of £800,000 donations

Posted on September 21, 2021 by insidecroydon

Pro-Starmer ‘party within a party’ which has Croydon North MP on its board and links to ‘campaign guru’ David Evans somehow overlooked huge payments from a businessman and a Mayfair hedge fund manager An influential Labour Party group which has … Continue reading →

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MP Reed is all together in Electoral Commission funds probe

Posted on February 20, 2021 by insidecroydon

An influential Labour group, which has Croydon North MP Steve Reed OBE among its directors, is under investigation by the Electoral Commission after failing to declare more than £800,000 in donations within the time required by law. Business Insider has … Continue reading →

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Grassroots Labour Party members in calls to sack David Evans

Posted on November 20, 2020 by insidecroydon

WALTER CRONXITE, political editor, on the backlash against Sir Keir Starmer and his general secretary’s treatment of Jeremy Corbyn David Evans, the “power behind the throne” of Croydon Labour, is now under attack from local parties across the country for … Continue reading →

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Newman backs former Blair aide for Labour Party top job

Posted on May 19, 2020 by insidecroydon

Our Town Hall reporter KEN LEE on how Croydon has two prominent candidates for the position of general secretary Tony Newman, the increasingly beleaguered leader of Croydon Council, has given his backing to his old mate David Evans as he … Continue reading →

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How to make friends and influence people, Croydon 2019

Posted on November 21, 2019 by insidecroydon

So, this is what political lobbying looks like in Croydon in 2019. The photograph shows a merry gathering of Labour campaigners, on the night last week that the Grauniad columnist, Owen Jones, paid a fleeting visit to rally activists as … Continue reading →

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MP Philp slates council: ‘Kim Jong-un would blush at this’

Posted on July 28, 2018 by insidecroydon

WALTER CRONXITE reports on the latest in Croydon’s Brick by Brick nepotism scandal Local MP Chris Philp has stepped into the row over nepotism among senior figures at the Labour-controlled council, and called for the sacking of Alison Butler, the … Continue reading →

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Brick by Brick hires firm which has Butler’s son on staff

Posted on July 24, 2018 by insidecroydon

WALTER CRONXITE reveals a series of failures to declare interests by the Town Hall’s deputy leader, despite family links to a consultancy which has been handed hundreds of thousands of pounds of contracts by Croydon Council Town Hall contracts worth … Continue reading →

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Labour spin doctor Ellerby accused of a £1.4m comms trick

Posted on March 7, 2017 by insidecroydon

Croydon’s Council Tax-payers could be facing hundreds of thousands of pounds of additional costs, on top of the six-figure salary for their new Blairite political spin-doctor, Julian Ellerby, if his track record at neighbouring Lambeth is anything to go by. … Continue reading →

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