Reform’s London mayor candidate hypocritical over law breaking

Reform candidate for London Mayor, Laila Cunningham, has previously had several companies struck off after allegedly breaking the law. Despite her previous law-breaking, she has the nerve to claim the capital is in the “grip of a crime wave”

Cunningham is a former Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) prosecutor. She won a seat on Westminster City Council in 2022 for the Tories. She defected to Reform UK in June 2025

But now, despite promising an “all-out war” on crime and her previous legal experience, it transpires that she actually had multiple businesses struck off after breaking company law.

Breaking the law, one Laila Cunningham at a time

According to the Times, three companies which Laila Cunningham either owned or served as a director of were struck off by Companies House. This was apparently for failing to file the correct documents.

Failing to file the correct documentation for a company is a criminal offence under UK law

Failing to file company accounts is a criminal offence under Section 451 of the Companies Act [2006]. The police can prosecute directors, but this rarely happens.

The Companies Registrar dissolved all of Laila Cunningham’s companies via compulsory strike-off action. However, they did not prosecute or fine her.

Additionally, before she left the CPS, she made several highly politicised comments on law and order. One of her comments included that she was “tired of defending failure”. Again, this is illegal.

CPS code forbids prosecutors from any political activity because it compromises their “impartial duty to the government”. Not long after she made the comments, she resigned before the CPS could start disciplinary proceedings.

She once said that both the Tories and Labour have failed on crime, yet she is one of the people who has been committing it.

Laila Cunningham has also claimed that there are “no safe parts in London” and that:

You see certain towns in this country who have completely been taken over by Muslim communities who don’t embrace British values.

However, according to census data, there are no towns or cities in the UK with a majority Muslim population.

Laila Cunningham has since rejected any claims that she had broken companies law.

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