Politics
In his early years, Dyke was an active supporter of the Labour Party and in 1977 he attempted to win a seat on the Greater London Council for Labour at Putney. Until 1999 he was considered "very much part of Tony Blair's New Britain", attending parties to celebrate Labour's 1997 election victory. In later years, he was a financial donor to the party, was asked to write a report on the future of the NHS. before leaving Labour prior to the 2005 General Election, in which he supported the Liberal Democrats.
On 2 May 2005, the former Labour supporter Dyke went public at a Liberal Democrat press conference and said that "Democracy was under threat if Labour was elected for a third term".
On 20 April 2009, it was announced that he was to lead a review of the UK’s creative sector for the Conservative Party .
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