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Matthew Owen John Taylor, Baron Taylor of Goss Moor (born 3 January 1963) is a
Liberal Democrat
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politician in the United Kingdom. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for
Truro and St Austell in Cornwall from 1987 until he stood down at the
2010 general election. He was granted a
life peer
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age and so became a member of the
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in July 2010. Since 2007 he has worked at a national level with successive Governments on reforming national planning policy to support more sustainable forms of development and improved community engagement in placemaking. He is best known for his work in support of rural communities including developing neighbourhood planning policy, and creating the Government's 'Garden Communities' policies for 21st-century sustainable new communities and neighbourhoods.
Early life
Matthew Taylor is the
adopted
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son of
Kenneth Taylor, a television script writer best known for several of the
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adaptions, as well as
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''The Jewel in the Crown'' and
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The Camomile Lawn
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In 2008, he traced his birth mother Margaret Harris, daughter of New Zealand businessman
Sir Jack Harris, and learnt that his great-grandfather had been another Liberal MP,
Sir Percy Harris who served as Liberal Chief Whip from 1935 to 1945, and Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party from 1940 to 1945.
Education
Taylor was educated first at St Paul's Primary School in Truro and then two independent schools: Treliske Preparatory School (now known as
Truro School
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Prep) on Highertown (
A390) in Truro, and
University College School
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in
Hampstead
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, north London, followed by winning a scholarship to
Lady Margaret Hall
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at the
University of Oxford
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, budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20)
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where he read
Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
Life and career
Politically active from a young age, Taylor campaigned for Liberal Party Deputy Leader and North Cornwall MP
John Pardoe
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Pardoe was the son of Cuthbert B. Pardoe and ...
in the
1979 United Kingdom general election
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at the age of sixteen and joined the
Cornwall
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anti-nuclear
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alliance a year later to campaign against a nuclear power station proposed to be built in the County. He involved himself in environmental and civil liberties campaigns whilst at sixth form. After winning a scholarship, he studied
Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at
Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
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. At the end of his degree, he was elected as President of the
Oxford University Student Union
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for the year 1985–86 on the
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Member of Parliament
In 1986 he was employed by the Parliamentary Liberal Party as their Economic Policy Researcher and assigned to the then Truro MP
David Penhaligon
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who was the Liberal Party's Treasury Spokesman and Deputy Leader. Penhaligon died in a car crash at the end of that year, and Taylor was selected to run as the
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candidate in
the subsequent by-election, which he won in early 1987. Three months later he retained the seat at the
1987 general election. Aged 24, he was the youngest sitting MP and took the title "
Baby of the House
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" from fellow Alliance MP
Charles Kennedy
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, holding the title for 10 years until 1997. His celebrity status gave him early access to
political media
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and television programmes including the
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