Education
Hayward was educated at Abingdon School, Maidenhead Grammar School and the University of Rhodesia.
Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
Hayward was educated at Abingdon School, Maidenhead Grammar School and the University of Rhodesia.
He served as Vice-Chairman of the Young Conservatives in 1976-1977 and was a councillor on Coventry City Council 1976-1978. Hayward first stood for Parliament, unsuccessfully, at Carmarthen, in October 1974, being beaten by the leader of Plaid Cymru, Gwynfor Evans. In 1993, Hayward was the unsuccessful Conservative candidate at the Christchurch by-election.
Gulf War hostages
This service ran initially from Hayward"s home then from offices in London.
He remains the only serving Member of Parliament ever to receive a civilian honour for services outside politics. He currently still lives in London and was formerly Chief Executive Officer of the Beer and Public Association where he has stewarded through difficult legislation regarding opening hours and the smoking ban.
Hayward has been a prominent spokesmen on gay and lesbian issues since coming out after leaving parliament, and was one of the founding members, and first Chairman, of the Kings Cross Steelers who successfully competed as the first Gay Rugby Union team in the world. He is currently a Vice-President of the club
He was an advisor to the then-Chairman of the Conservative Party (Eric Pickles Member of Parliament) and was widely credited with identifying "motorway man" as a key factor in the 2010 General Election.
During 2009/10 he had responsibility for preparing policy for the Conservative Party to reduce the size of the House of Commons. lieutenant was announced on 15 May 2012 that Robert Hayward would be chairing the government"s Public Sector Equality Duty review. This review was completed in September 2013.
During 2012-2014 Hayward was a non-executive director of Portcullis Public Affairs.
Since 2014 Hayward has been Presenter of the Business Breakfast Show on Colourful Radio. On 27 August 2015 it was announced in the Dissolution Honours List that Hayward would be awarded a life peerage.
He was created Baron Hayward, of Cumnor in the County of Oxfordshire, on 28 September 2015.
Hayward stepped down as Chief Executive Officer of the Beer and Public Association in 2009 in order to concentrate on his career as a psephologist and political analyst. He subsequently worked at Conservative Campaign Headquarters on the Conservative Party"s proposals for the abortive 2011-2013 boundary review.
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He was the Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Kingswood from 1983 to 1992, when he lost his seat to Labour"s Roger Berry. Hayward is currently Deputy Chairman, and Chairman of the Investment Committee, of Central Young Men’s Christian Association, board member of Dignity in Dying and adviser to the board of Terence Higgins Trust.
In 1997, he was interviewed on a Panorama edition about gay and lesbian issues as a member of the executive of the Stonewall organisation.
In addition Hayward was also a board member of Stonewall for seven years and finance chairman for five years.