Matthew Taylor, Baron Taylor of Goss Moor
[4] Politically active from a young age, Taylor campaigned for Liberal Party Deputy Leader and North Cornwall MP John Pardoe in the 1979 United Kingdom general election at the age of sixteen and joined the Cornwall anti-nuclear alliance a year later to campaign against a nuclear power station proposed to be built in the County.At the end of his degree, he was elected as President of the Oxford University Student Union for the year 1985–86 on the Liberal/SDP Alliance ticket.Penhaligon died in a car crash at the end of that year;[6] Taylor was selected to run as the Liberal candidate in the subsequent by-election, which he won in early 1987.He was to be made the Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesperson (1999–2003) by Kennedy,[8] and announced the policy of raising the upper rate to 50% for people earning over £100,000.[9] He was asked to lead the preparation of the 2001 General Election manifesto, which he co-authored with Professor Richard Grayson who was then Charles Kennedy's Director of Policy.In 2015 he developed his 'Garden Village' proposal, published by Policy Exchange, for enabling local authorities to support new sustainable mixed use communities to meet housing need.