The Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town | |
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 Official portrait, 2022 | |
| Shadow Deputy Leader of the House of Lords | |
| In office 27 June 2017 – 13 October 2021 | |
| Leader | The Baroness Smith of Basildon |
| Preceded by | The Lord Hunt of Kings Heath |
| Succeeded by | The Lord Collins of Highbury |
| Member of the House of Lords | |
| Life peerage 22 June 2010 | |
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| Born | (1949-09-07)7 September 1949 (age 76) |
| Party | Labour Co-operative |
| Alma mater | Trevelyan College, Durham (BA) University of London |
Dianne Hayter, Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town (born 7 September 1949) is a British politician serving as a Member of theHouse of Lords since 2010. A member of theLabour and Co-operative Party, she was Shadow DeputyLeader of the House of Lords from 2017 to 2021.
Hayter representedSocialist Societies on theNational Executive Committee of the Labour Party from 1998 to 2010, chairing the committee from 2007 to 2008. She served in numerous opposition front bench roles in the Lords from 2011 until 2021, when she became Chair of the International Agreements Committee.
She is the daughter of Flt Lt Alec Bristow Hayter (died 1972), and Nancy Evans (died 1959). Educated atTrevelyan College,Durham University, where she studied Social and Public Administration (BA),[1] she gained adoctorate atLondon University in 2004.
Hayter was a Director ofAlcohol Concern from 1984 to 1990, and Director of Corporate Affairs for theWellcome Trust from 1996 to 1999.
She served as a board member of a number of organisations, including theFinancial Reporting Council's Board of Actuarial Standards, the Determinations Panel ofThe Pensions Regulator, the Surveying Ombudsman Service, and the Insolvency Practices Council. Hayter chaired the Legal Services Consumer Panel, and was formerly vice chairman of theFinancial Services Authority Consumer Panel and chair of the Consumer Panel of the Bar Standards Board.[2] She was a JP from 1976 to 1990.
Hayter was the General Secretary of theFabian Society between 1976 and 1982 and Chief Executive of theEuropean Parliamentary Labour Party during 1990 to 1996. She is a vice president of the Fabian Society.[3]
She sat on Labour'sNational Executive Committee from 1998 to 2010 and chaired it in 2007–08.
TheLabour History Archive and Study Centre at thePeople's History Museum inManchester holds the personal papers of Dianne Hayter in their collection, spanning the period from the late 1970s to 2010.[4]
On 22 June 2010, she was created alife peer asBaroness Hayter of Kentish Town, ofKentish Town in theLondon Borough of Camden, and wasintroduced in theHouse of Lords the same day.[5][6]
She was an Opposition Whip from October 2011 to September 2015.
Between 2012 and 2021, Hayter discontinuously served as a Shadow Spokesperson for the following departments:
She was elected Deputy leader of Labour in the Lords in June 2017.
She is a member ofLabour Friends of Israel.[7]
In July 2019,Jeremy Corbyn sacked her as Shadow Brexit Spokesperson for making what the party called "deeply offensive" remarks at aLabour First meeting. Hayter asserted that the party's leadership was not open to external views and suggested those around Corbyn were "in a bunker" like the "last days of Hitler". Despite this, she remained deputy leader in the Lords, as that was an elected position.[8][9]
Dianne Hayter lives inIslington,London with her husband, Professor (Anthony) David Caplin, whom she married in 1994.[10]
Hayter has writtenFabian Tract no. 451—The Labour Party: Crisis and Prospects (September 1977),Fightback—Labour's traditional right in the 1970s and 1980s (2005), andMen Who Made Labour—Celebrating the Centenary of the Parliamentary Labour Party (2006) (withLord Haworth).
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| Preceded by | General Secretary of theFabian Society 1976–1982 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Chair of theFabian Society 1992–1993 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Socialist societies representative on theLabour PartyNational Executive Committee 1998–2010 | Succeeded by Keith Vaz and Simon Wright |
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