Who is Conservative London mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey?
SHAUN Bailey stood as the Conservative candidate for the 2021 Mayor of London election, but failed to take the top spot from Sadiq Khan. Here's what we know...
Who is Conservative London mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey?
Shaun Bailey, 37, fought Sadiq Khan to become the Mayor of London in the 2021 election.
Mr Bailey, was born in North Kensington after his family of Jamaican descent, moved as part of the Windrush Generation.
He was raised in the West London area alongside his younger brother by his mum.
Shaun went to Henry Compton School Fulham, and left with five CSE's before he earned two A-Levels and a BTEC at Paddington College.
For many years Mr Bailey was a youth worker in Ladbroke Grove and entered politics through charity work.
He lost at the 2010 General Election standing in Hammersmith, and he failed to gain nomination for different constituencies at 2015 elections.
Who is Shaun Bailey's wife?
Shaun's wife of 15-years, Ellie Bailey, revealed that she fell in love with him because of his work with disadvantaged young people.
The history teacher said the first conversation she ever had with him was about his job as youth worker.
She said: “It was inspiring and I'd never encountered anything like that and, yeah, a huge part of why I fell in love with him.”
The couple have two children together.
What is Shaun Bailey's political manifesto?
During his 2020/2021 mayoral campaign, Bailey argued that increasing stop and search “saves lives.”
In an interview with TalkRadio in February 2020, he said he would “back the police to do the job” by giving them stop and search powers as well as the technology for scan and search.
Bailey's Mayoral campaign contains several policies including:
- an increase the size of the Metropolitan Police to 40,000 officers and the introduction of new ‘stop and scan’ technology that will use thermal imaging in knife crime hotspots.
- a reverse in the increase in the Congestion Charge to £15,[69] and stopping the expansion of the Ultra Low Emission Zone.
- a taxpayer-owned housebuilding organisation controlled by the Mayor[70] and funding 100,000 shared ownership homes to be sold for £100k.
- a London Infrastructure Bank to fund Crossrail 2 and other infrastructure including Hammersmith Bridge and Tube upgrades.
- plans to make every London bus electric by the end of a second term.
- to roll-out CCTV on the Bakerloo, Central and Piccadilly London Underground lines in an effort to improve women's safety.
- to recruit 4,000 new youth workers and open 32 new youth centres, one for every London borough.
Why did Shaun Bailey resign from the London Assembly?
Shaun Bailey hit the news after his election defeat as part of the Christmas party row in December 2021.
Bailey stood down from his role at the London Assembly after damning photos were revealed by the Mirror, showing him alongside other Tory aides at a Westminster Christmas party in 2020.
"Shaun Bailey AM has today stood aside as Chairman of the London Assembly's Police and Crime Committee," a GLA Conservatives spokesman said.
"He does not want an unauthorised social gathering involving some former members of the London mayoral campaign team last December to distract from the Committee's important work holding the Mayor of London to account.
"He will continue to speak up for Londoners who no longer feel safe in our city and push for a strategy to tackle the disproportionate level of crime in London's black community."