Dianne Hayter, Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town

Dianne Hayter, Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town ( born September 7, 1949) is a British politician who sits on the Labour Party in the House of Lords. She was 2007-2008 chairman of Labour.

Youth and Education

She is the daughter of the officer Alec Bristow Hayter and Nancy Evans. She studied at Trevelyan College, University of Durham Social and Public Administration, graduating with a BA .. In 2004 gained a doctorate at the University of London.

Labour Party

From 1976 to 1982 she was General Secretary of the Fabian Society and 1990-1996 chairman of the Labour Group in the European Parliament. She wrote 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 ) ( together with Lord Haworth ).

Employees in organizations

She is board member of various organizations, among others the Financial Reporting Council, at The Pensions Regulator, the Surveying Ombudsman Service and the Insolvency Practices Council. She is Chair of the Legal Services Consumer Panel and former chairman of the Consumer Panel of the Financial Services Authority and the Consumer Panel of the Bar Standards Board.

Adelung

She was raised as Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town to Life Peer on 22 June 2010 and moved into the House of Lords on the same day.

Personal

Lady Hayter lives in Kentish Town, London with her husband, Professor ( Anthony ) David Caplin, with whom she has been married since 1994.

Publications

• The Labour Party: crisis and prospects ( Fabian Soc. ), 1977;
• (Ed.) Labour in the Eighties, 1980;
• (Eds.) Prime Minister Portillo and Other Things that Never Happened, 2003;
• Fight Back: Labour 's Traditional Right in the 80s, 2005;
• (ed jtly with Lord Haworth ) Men Who Made Labour, 2006;
• (Ed.) From the Workhouse to Welfare, 2009.