Sir Edward MacMillan Taylor, usually Teddy Taylor (born April 18, 1937) was a British politician, and a Conservative Member of Parliament 1964-1979 and 1980-2005. He was a leading member and sometime Vice-President of the Conservative Monday Club. April 18 is the 108th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (109th in leap years). ... 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Conservative Party is one of the two largest political parties in the United Kingdom and the most successful party in political history based on election victories. ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament; in the Westminster system, specifically to the lower house. ... The Conservative Monday Club (widely known as The Monday Club) is a British right-wing pressure-group with its origins in the Conservative Party. ...

Taylor was a journalist on the Glasgow Herald and a Glasgow City Councillor from 1960. He first entered Parliament in the 1964 election as MP for Glasgow Cathcart, at the time being the youngest MP. He became a Scottish Office minister in Edward Heath's government. He resigned from this position in protest at the British signup to the EEC. The Lighthouse, Charles Mackintoshs Glasgow Herald building The Herald is a broadsheet newspaper published Monday to Saturday in Glasgow, Scotland. ... The City of Glasgow is one of the 32 Scottish unitary authorities and came into being in 1995. ... The United Kingdom general election of 1964 result was a very slim majority for the Labour Party, of 4, and led to their first government since 1951. ... Glasgow Cathcart was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until 2005. ... The Baby of the House is the unofficial moniker given to the youngest member of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... Categories: Stub | Scotland | Departments of the United Kingdom Government ... Sir Edward Richard George Heath, KG, MBE (9 July 1916 – 17 July 2005), soldier and politician, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1975. ... The European Community (EC), most important of three European Communities, was originally founded on March 25, 1957 by the signing of the Treaty of Rome under the name of European Economic Community. ...

He was a controversial figure in his time in Scottish politics, known as Teddy "dial-a-quote" and "bring back the birch" Taylor. Brian Wilson, journalist and later Labour MP, memorably wrote that calling him by a nice cuddly name like "Teddy" was "like calling the hound of the Baskervilles 'Rover'". Thanks to his strong personal following he held onto what was basically a working-class constituency in Cathcart, one of only two Conservative seats in Glasgow in the 1970s. Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... The Rt. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The Labour Party has since its formation in the early 20th century been the principal left wing political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics). ... The original Teddy bear (circa 1903). ... The Hound of the Baskervilles is a crime novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, originally serialised in the Strand Magazine in 1901 and 1902, which is set largely on Dartmoor. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ...

He joined the Conservative Monday Club at the time of the signing of the Treaty of Rome (which he opposed) and remained one of its staunchest supporters well into the 1990s. On behalf of the Club, in June 1974, he launched an attack on vandalism, saying in the House of Commons that those who defaced public buildings with aerosol paint should be made to clean the buildings themselves. He sought leave to introduce a Bill in parliament in October 1974 to restore Capital Punishment. The following January, referring to the murder of a London policeman by an IRA gunman, he said that "the answer was return of Capital Punishment, and added that "if the police want arms, no government could now refuse". He was on the editorial board which prepared the Club's October 1985 Conservative Party Conference issue of their newspaper, Right Ahead, to which he contributed a lengthy article entitled How Tories are Subsidising the Soviet War Machine. On 30 March 1990 he was the guest speaker at the Club's Surrey branch 21st Anniversary Dinner. He was a Vice-President of the Club until at least 1992. The Conservative Monday Club (widely known as The Monday Club) is a British right-wing pressure-group with its origins in the Conservative Party. ... The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1974 calendar). ... British House of Commons Canadian House of Commons In some bicameral parliaments of a Westminster System, the House of Commons has historically been the name of the elected lower house. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1974 calendar). ... // Capital punishment, or the death penalty, is the execution of a convicted criminal by the State as punishment for crimes known as capital crimes or capital offenses. ... The acronym IRA may refer to: Irish Republican Army See also List of IRAs Irish Republican Army, the self-proclaimed Army of the Irish Republic that fought the Irish War of Independence against British rule, 1916 - 1921 Irish Republican Army (1922-1969): Originally the Anti-Treaty or Republican side in... This article is about the year. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ...

As Opposition Front Bench Spokesman on Scottish Affairs, Taylor said in November 1974 that a general directive to the National Coal Board should follow the guidelines of the Social Contract in any wage settlement. He said that the Labour government were being "thoroughly cowardly and hypocritical over the Social Contract" and asked the government spokesman in the House of Commons whether it was "just a sick joke". 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1974 calendar). ... The National Coal Board (NCB) was the nationalised British coal mining company. ... British House of Commons Canadian House of Commons In some bicameral parliaments of a Westminster System, the House of Commons has historically been the name of the elected lower house. ...

He was close to Margaret Thatcher, served as her Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland, and it is expected that he would have become her Secretary of State for Scotland if he had held his seat at the 1979 election. However, Scotland bucked the British trend by showing a slight swing from Conservative to Labour: Taylor had the dubious distinction of being the only Conservative MP at that election (other than by-election victors) to lose his seat, to John Maxton. Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS (born 13 October 1925) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990. ... The Shadow Cabinet (also called the Shadow Front Bench) is a senior group of opposition spokespeople in the Westminster system of government who together under the leadership of the Leader of the Opposition (or the leader of other smaller opposition parties) form an alternative cabinet to the governments, whose... The Secretary of State for Scotland (Rùnaire Stàite na h-Alba in Scottish Gaelic) is the chief minister in the government of the United Kingdom with responsibilites for Scotland, at the head of the Scotland Office (formerly The Scottish Office). ... Margaret Thatcher James Callaghan David Steel The UK general election, 1979 was held on May 3, 1979 and is regarded as a pivotal point in 20th century British politics. ... John Alston Maxton, Baron Maxton (born May 5, 1936) was a Labour backbench Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons Maxton is a nephew of the former Independent Labour Party leader, James Maxton. ...

Taylor re-entered Parliament at a 1980 by-election for Southend East following the death of Sir Stephen McAdden, then, since 1997, representing Rochford and Southend East. Policies of his include withdrawal from the European Union, the re-introduction of capital punishment, and of judicial corporal punishment of young offenders (birching, abolished in 1947). During John Major's government he was one of the Maastricht Rebels, and was expelled from the parliamentary party. Taylor stood down at the May 2005 general election. 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... Southend-on-Sea is a resort town in Essex, England. ... See also: Rochford, Worcestershire Rochford is a small town in the Rochford district of Essex in the East of England. ... // Capital punishment, or the death penalty, is the execution of a convicted criminal by the State as punishment for crimes known as capital crimes or capital offenses. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Birching is corporal punishment with a birch rod, typically a spanking given on the delinquents buttocks, alternatively on the back and/or over the shoulders. ... Sir John Major, KG, CH (born 29 March 1943) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1990 - 1997. ... In the politics of the United Kingdom, the Maastricht Rebels were MPs of the then governing Conservative Party who refused to support the government of John Major in a House of Commons vote to secure ratification by the United Kingdom of the Maastricht treaty (Treaty on European Union). ... The United Kingdom general election of 2005 was held on Thursday, 5 May 2005 and won by the Labour Party, led by Tony Blair. ...

In 1994, Taylor made a memorably idiosyncratic appearance on the BBC panel show Have I Got News For You where he didn't seem to understand the light-hearted nature of the programme and used its forum for serious political debate. However, he redeemed himself with the revelation that he was a big fan of Bob Marley, an announcement which led to an invitation to present the prizes at the British Reggae Awards a week later, which he accepted. 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the largest publicly-funded radio and television broadcasting corporation of the United Kingdom (see British television) and the world. ... Have I Got News for You (sometimes abbreviated to HIGNFY) is a long-running UK television topical panel game. ... Robert Nesta Marley, OM, (February 6, 1945 – May 11, 1981) better known as Bob Marley, was a Jamaican singer, guitarist, songwriter, Rastafari and activist. ...

Taylor is also a supporter of Unite Against Fascism. [1] UAF Logo representing unity between people Unite Against Fascism is a political pressure group in the United Kingdom that campaigns against far right-wing racist and fascist parties and groups in Britain, primarily the British National Party (BNP), which it identifies as the principal threat. ...

References

• Copping, Robert, The Monday Club - Crisis and After, Current Affairs Information Service, Ilford, Essex, May, 1975, (P/B), pps: 17, 20, 22.

• Taylor, Teddy, MP, and David Storey, The Conservative Party & The Common Market, published by the Conservative Monday Club, July 1982, (P/B).

• Taylor, Teddy, MP, Proposals to Rescue the British Fishing Industry, Monday Club Policy Paper, December 1982.

• Taylor, Teddy, MP, How Tories are Subsidising the Soviet War Machine, in Right Ahead newspaper published by the Conservative Monday Club, October 1985 Conservative Party Conference issue.

• Taylor, Teddy, MP, The EEC - The Other Side of the Coin, in Right Ahead newspaper published by the Conservative Monday Club, October 1989 Conservative Party Conference issue.

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External links

• Biography from Conservative Party website
• Facts about Teddy Taylor from TheyWorkForYou.com