Richard Taylor (British politician)

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Richard Thomas Taylor (7 July 1934 – 26 June 2024) was an English medical doctor and politician. He served as an independent Member of Parliament for Wyre Forest between 2001 and 2010.<ref>Wyre Forest – Election Results 2010, BBC.</ref> He was co-leader of the National Health Action Party.

Background and education

Taylor was born on 7 July 1934.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The son of Thomas Taylor and his wife Mabel Hickley, Taylor was educated at The Leys School in Cambridge. Taylor went to Clare College, Cambridge, and the former Westminster Medical School, now part of the Imperial College School of Medicine.

Career

Medical career

From 1959 to 1961, Taylor was pre-registration house officer at Westminster, Kingston and London Chest Hospitals in London. A medical officer in the Royal Air Force from 1960 to 1964, he was a registrar and senior registrar for appointments in London hospitals (1964–1972). Taylor latterly worked as a consultant physician at Kidderminster General Hospital from 1972 to 1995.

Military service

On 1 October 1960, he was commissioned as a flying officer in the Medical Branch of the Royal Air Force.<ref name="LG 28 October 1960">Template:London Gazette</ref> On 1 April 1964, he was transferred to the reserve, ending his full-time service.<ref name="LG 3 April 1964">Template:London Gazette</ref>

Parliamentary career

Before entering politics, Taylor was a member of his local health authority, chairman of Kidderminster Hospital League of Friends (1996–2001), and a committee member of the Save Kidderminster Hospital Campaign (1997–2001).

Standing for Parliament as an Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern candidate at the 2001 general election, Taylor campaigned largely on a single issue, that of restoring the Accident & Emergency department of Kidderminster Hospital,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> which had been closed in 2000 due to cuts in the NHS. Taylor won with a majority of 18,000, defeating the incumbent Labour MP and junior minister, David Lock. The Liberal Democrats decided not to put up a candidate against him. The Liberal Democrats had previously stood down when faced with another independent candidate, Martin Bell in Tatton in 1997.

Taylor was re-elected at the 2005 election with a reduced majority of 5,250. Conservative candidate Mark Garnier took second place and Labour were pushed into third in the constituency. This made Taylor the first independent MP to retain a seat in the House of Commons in a second election since Frank Maguire in Fermanagh and South Tyrone in 1979.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

He was a member of the Health Select Committee (2001–2010) and also became co-chair of the All Party Local Hospital Group, Vice Chairman of the All Party Group on Cancer, Vice Chairman of the Associate Parliamentary Flood Prevention Group, and Secretary of the All Party Group on Patient and Public Involvement in Health.

While his speeches in the Commons were mostly confined to the health service, Taylor also laid out an atypical collection of political views. These non-health policies included support for the renationalisation of the British railway system, and the availability of cannabis as a controlled drug.<ref>Profile page , BBC News</ref> He also opposed the Iraq war<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and student top up fees.

Taylor lost his seat in the 2010 general election to the Conservative candidate, Mark Garnier,<ref name="BBC - Dr Richard Taylor to stand again for parliament on NHS ticket" /> by a margin of 2,643 votes. The Liberal Democrats elected to field a candidate, who received 6,040 votes.

In 2013, Taylor announced his intention to stand for election in the 2015 general election, representing the National Health Action Party.<ref name="BBC - Dr Richard Taylor to stand again for parliament on NHS ticket">Template:Cite news</ref> At the election, Taylor finished fourth with 7,221 votes. He did not stand in the 2017 general election.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In June 2022, Taylor announced that his Party (now called Independent Health Concern) would not be standing in future elections and recommended that its supporters consider voting for independent candidates.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Personal life

In 1962, Taylor married Ann Brett and they had one son and two daughters. After this marriage was dissolved, in 1990 he married Christine Miller and with her had another daughter.

Taylor lived in Kidderminster.<ref name="Guardian - Queen's birthday honours list 2014" /> He died from dementia and bowel cancer on 26 June 2024, at the age of 89.<ref name="BBC death">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Honours

In the 2014 Queen's Birthday Honours, Taylor was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) 'for services to the community in Worcestershire especially to Kidderminster Hospital'.<ref name="Guardian - Queen's birthday honours list 2014">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="LG 14 June 2014">Template:London Gazette</ref>

Electoral performance

Taylor contested the constituency of Wyre Forest at four general elections, the first three times for Independent Community and Health Concern (previously Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern), and in the 2015 for the National Health Action Party.

Date of election Constituency Party Votes % of votes Result
2001 general election Wyre Forest style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Health Concern 28,487 58.1 Elected
2005 general election Wyre Forest style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Health Concern 18,739 39.9 Elected
2010 general election Wyre Forest style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Health Concern 16,150 31.7 Not elected
2015 general election Wyre Forest style="background-color: Template:Party color" | National Health Action Party 7,221 14.6 Not elected

References

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Bibliography

  • Who's Who (A & C. Black, London, 2003) page 2125

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