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| Lord Taylor dies after mobility scooter crash | |
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| A Labour peer has died after being seriously injured when his mobility scooter collided with a van outside Parliament during rush hour. | |
| Lord Taylor of Blackburn, 87, was taken to a south London hospital after the crash on Wednesday last week. | |
| Lord Taylor was the Labour leader of Blackburn Council in the 1970s before being made a Life Peer in May 1978 and becoming a businessman. | |
| The driver stopped at the scene but was not arrested, police said at the time. | |
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| Thomas Taylor became a member of Blackburn Town Council in 1954 and was its leader from 1972-76. | |
| In 2009 Lord Taylor was suspended from the Lords for six months after allegedly offering to help a business secure favourable changes in legislation for a fee in a newspaper "sting" operation. It was the first time in 350 years that peers have been banned in this way. | |
| He and three other peers were caught speaking to undercover journalists posing as lobbyists and appeared willing to amend a bill in return for cash. |