Matthew Taylor, Baron Taylor of Goss Moor

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Matthew Taylor, Baron Taylor of Goss Moor, 2017

Matthew Taylor, Baron Taylor of Goss Moor (born January 3, 1963 ), is a British politician of the Liberal Party and now the Liberal Democrats , who was a member of the House of Commons for 23 years and has been a member of the House of Lords since 2010 .

Life

University degree and youngest member of the House of Commons

After visiting the Treliske School in Truro Taylor began studying economics at Lady Margaret Hall of the University of Oxford and then at the University College of the University of Oxford. During his studies he was President of the Students' Union of the University of Oxford between 1985 and 1986 and after completing his studies in 1986 he became an economic researcher with the House of Commons David Penhaligon .

Taylor was at a by-election ( by-election ) on 12 March 1987 after the death of Penhaligon in a car accident for the Liberal Party in the constituency Truro first elected as a deputy in the House of Commons. At the age of just 24, he also became the youngest MP in the House of Commons ( Baby of the House ) and kept this unofficial ten years until Chris Leslie of the Labor Party became the youngest MP in 1997 at the age of 24.

After the dissolution of the Liberal Party, he moved to the Liberal Democrats in March 1988, which he represented in the lower house for the constituency of Truro until May 1, 1997 . After his previous constituency was dissolved as part of a constituency reform, he was re-elected as a member of the House of Commons in the general election on May 1, 1997 as a candidate for the Liberal Democrats in the newly created constituency of Truro and St Austell and belonged to it until May 6 2010 on.

During his more than 23-year's parliamentary membership was Taylor first 1987-1988 spokesman for the faction of the Liberal Party for energy and then to 1989 Group spokesman of the Liberal Democrats for Local Government, Housing and Transport in England before between 1989 and 1990 whose spokesman he of Trade and industry was. He also took over the position of chairman of the election campaign and communications commission within the party organization of the Liberal Democrats between 1989 and 1995.

He was also the spokesman for his parliamentary group for education between 1990 and 1992, then for children's issues and from 1994 to 1997 for the environment. During this time he was also a member of the Committee of Commons for Broadcasting from 1992 to 1994 and for the Environment from 1996 to 1997.

Leader of the Liberal Democrats and member of the House of Lords

Taylor was then between 1997 and 1999 main spokesman for his group for the environment and transport and then for economics, before he was chairman of the group of the Liberal Democrats ( Chairman of Parliamentary Party ) in October 2003 and held this position until March 2006. Since March 2006 Taylor was spokesman for the Liberal Democrats against social exclusion in the House of Commons.

In 2007 he declared that he would not run again for the House of Commons in the House of Commons elections on May 6, 2010 and thus left the House of Commons after these elections. Incidentally, his constituency of Truro and St Austell was not newly occupied, but dissolved as part of a constituency reform.

He was then raised to the rank of personal nobility as a life peer with the title Baron Taylor of Goss Moor , of Truro in the County of Cornwall, and has been a member of the House of Lords ever since .

Together with his wife he runs the consulting company Taylor & Garner Ltd.

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SURNAME Taylor, Matthew, Baron Taylor of Goss Moor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Taylor, Matthew, Baron Taylor of Goss Moor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Liberal Party (Liberal Democrats) politician, member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1963