Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town
Labour life peer since 2010, former Fabian Society general secretary and Lords frontbencher.
Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town wants gifts from overseas electors capped at £10,000, a tenth of the £100,000 limit in the Representation of the People Bill. Her amendment was among 73 waiting for a Lords committee stage on 5 October 2026.
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Tabled an amendment cutting the overseas-elector cap to £10,000
UK Local Elections 2026: Peers table four caps on party donorsBackground
Dianne Hayter, Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town, has sat in The House of Lords as a Labour life peer since 2010. She was general secretary of the Fabian Society, the oldest of Labour's affiliated societies, from 1976 to 1982 and served on Labour's National Executive Committee.
On the Lords front bench she was Labour's shadow deputy leader from 2017 to 2021 and a shadow Brexit minister in 2019.
In 2026 she became one of the peers pressing for tighter donation rules in the Representation of the People Bill, with amendments on overseas electors and on donors taxed under the foreign income and gains regime.
Hayter targets overseas money in politics
After peers gave the bill a Second Reading on 14 September 2026, Hayter tabled two amendments aimed at where political money comes from. One cuts the annual ceiling on donations from British voters living abroad from £100,000 to £10,000. The other would bar gifts from donors WHO use the foreign income and gains tax regime.
Hers is one of four Lords amendments that would limit donations. The others run from Lord Cromwell's £100,000 per donor over five years to Lord Carlile's £5m a year, and as drafted none of the four reaches gifts made before the law takes effect. The Commons had sent the bill up without any general CAP, and no date has been set for the committee stage.
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