Matthew Taylor

ABOUT MATTHEW TAYLOR

Labour Party politician who served on the Warwickshire County Council. Beginning in 2006, he also led the United Kingdom's Royal Society of Arts.

He graduated from the University of Southampton and the University of Warwick.

He ran an unsuccessful Parliamentary campaign in 1992.

His father, Laurie Taylor, was a radio host and sociologist and his mother, Jennie Howells, was an historian.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair put Taylor in charge of writing the 2005 manifesto of the Labour Party.