Hayter represented Socialist Societies on the National 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.
Hayter was a Director of Alcohol Concern from 1984 to 1990,and Director of Corporate Affairs for the Wellcome Trust from 1996 to 1999.
She served as a board member of a number of organisations,including the Financial Reporting Council's Board of Actuarial Standards,the Determinations Panel of The Pensions Regulator,the Surveying Ombudsman Service,and the Insolvency Practices Council. Hayter chaired the Legal Services Consumer Panel,and was formerly vice chairman of the Financial Services Authority Consumer Panel and chair of the Consumer Panel of the Bar Standards Board.[2] She was a JP from 1976 to 1990.
Political career
Hayter was the General Secretary of the Fabian Society between 1976 and 1982 and Chief Executive of the European Parliamentary Labour Party during 1990 to 1996. She is a vice president of the Fabian Society.[3]
In July 2019,Jeremy Corbyn sacked her as Shadow Brexit Spokesperson for making what the party called "deeply offensive" remarks at a Labour 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]
Personal life
Dianne Hayter lives in Islington,London with her husband,Professor (Anthony) David Caplin,whom she married in 1994.[10]
Publications
Hayter has written Fabian Tract no. 451—The Labour Party:Crisis and Prospects (September 1977),Fightback—Labour's traditional right in the 1970s and 1980s (2005),and Men Who Made Labour—Celebrating the Centenary of the Parliamentary Labour Party (2006) (with Lord Haworth).
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