Standing for Parliament as an Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern candidate at the 2001 general election, Taylor campaigned largely on a single issue, that of restoring the Accident & Emergency department of Kidderminster Hospital,[7] which had been closed in 2000 due to cuts in the NHS.

Taylor won with a majority of 18,000, defeating the incumbent Labour MP and junior minister, David Lock.

This made Taylor the first independent MP to retain a seat in the House of Commons in a second election since Frank Maguire in Fermanagh and South Tyrone in 1979.

While his speeches in the Commons were mostly confined to the health service, Taylor also laid out an atypical collection of political views.

These non-health policies included support for the renationalisation of the British railway system, and the availability of cannabis as a controlled drug.

Taylor lost his seat in the 2010 general election to the Conservative candidate, Mark Garnier,[11] by a margin of 2,643 votes.

[15][16] In the 2014 Queen's Birthday Honours, Taylor was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) 'for services to the community in Worcestershire especially to Kidderminster Hospital'.