Dr Richard Taylor obituary

Doctor who campaigned to preserve hospital services in Kidderminster and was elected twice as an independent MPIt is extremely rare in the British parliamentary system for an independent candidate outside the party system to win a seat, but Dr Richard Taylor, who has died aged 89, achieved it not once but twice, for the Worcestershire seat of Wyre Forest at the 2001 and 2005 general elections.At the time, only Taylor and the former BBC correspondent Martin Bell, who stood as an anti-sleaze candi