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General Secretary David Evans makes a speech at the Labour Party conference in Brighton, September 25, 2021
LABOUR general secretary David Evans has announced that he is quitting.
It comes after four years in which the party’s membership has plummeted, and it became dependent on a few rich donors.
Mr Evans was appointed to lead Labour’s administration by Sir Keir Starmer after trade unionist Jennie Formby resigned in 2020.
Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES
Starmer struggles to save leadership amid polling calamity
STEPHEN ARNELL examines whether Starmer is a canny strategist playing a longer game or heading for MacDonald’s Great Betrayal, tracing parallels between today’s rightward drift and the 1931 crisis