Retired doctor and Save Kidderminster Hospital candidate Richard Taylor with his wife Chris after sweeping to an astonishing landslide victory on June 8, 2001
Dr Richard Taylor's stunning victory in Wyre Forest constituency was one of the biggest surprises in the 2001 General Election. It was not just that a sparsely funded independent candidate had ousted a government minister, with the weight of a giant party machine and a popular prime minister behind him.
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