In his report, Lyon said: "Mr Hain said that his campaign for office within the Labour party had to be given a lower personal priority than his public responsibilities. The two factors which he believed were significant in Hain4Labour's administration proving to be unable to ensure timely reports after May 2007 were the unexpected and abrupt departure of his first campaign director and the disappearance of the essentially volunteer organisation following the end of the formal six-week campaign." Lyon went on: "During the period from June to November 2007, Mr Hain did not put in place procedures for reporting donations received during that period. Nor did he consider his obligations to register the donations he received during that period." In April 2007 Hain's first campaign director, Philip Taylor, was replaced by Steve Morgan. Hain told the commissioner that Taylor left the campaign as a result of a "personality clash" with Morgan.