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Fears for long term jobless

Shaun Bailey writes about youth unemployment for The Sun.

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ITV's London Tonight on Hammersmith

 ITV's London Tonight features the race to be the next MP for Hammersmith.

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The iVote

The Sun reports on Shaun Bailey's new iPhone app.

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DNA database is ‘election issue’

Shaun Bailey gives his views on the DNA database to the shepherdsbushW12 website.

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Shaun Bailey: An entire generation left out of the economy

 Shaun Bailey writes for The Independent.

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'Shisha gangs' responsible for festive season violence

 Shaun Bailey is quoted in the Hammersmith & Fulham Chronicle.

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Tower shocks: Britain's poverty

Shaun Bailey is quoted in The Sun.

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Army Cadets to Face £4M cut

Shaun Bailey is quoted in the Sunday Express.

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Rising stars: new face of the Conservatives

Shaun Bailey is profiled by The Daily Telegraph as part of an article on the "wave of new talent to emerge and change the parliamentary face of the Tory Party" after the next General Election.

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Have you got Spirit Of London

The Sun names Shaun Bailey named as a judge in The Spirit of London Awards.

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Social mobility in our education system

Click here to listen to Shaun speaking on Tuesday 21st July 2009’s edition of BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme talking about social mobility in our education system.

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Discussing youth unemployment in Britain on BBC's Newsnight

Shaun Bailey on Newsnight

Shaun appears on the panel discussing youth enemployment. Watch the whole piece or go to 8 minutes in to see Shaun on the panel discussion.

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The new faces of politics

Writing for The Guardian Andrew Hobson highlights Shaun Bailey in an article where he says many promising young candidates are ready to represent their parties in a very different way to the MPs they are replacing.

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Shaun Bailey writes for The Sun on Ben Kinsella's murderers

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The Government's given up the war on drugs

Shaun Bailey writes for The Evening Standard.

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Shaun Bailey discusses MPs expenses on Newsnight

Watch Shaun Bailey discuss MPs expenses on Newsnight.

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We can't let the family die

Successive governments are to blame for the demise of the traditional family. It will take a brave politician to save it now, says Kathy Gyngell, who quotes Shaun Bailey in her article for The Daily Telegraph.

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“I’m straight talking and from the street. If it needs to be said then I’ll say it.”

Christina Farr interviews Hammersmith & Shepherds Bush Conservative Parliamentary Candidate, Shaun Bailey on the HammersmithToday.co.uk website.

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Labour MP broke rules by writing to voters in next-door seat

Click here to read an article in The Evening Standard by Katherine Barney about how Ealing Acton Labour MP, Andrew Slaughter has been accused of breaking Government rules by delivering campaigning letters on House of Commons notepaper to residents in a neighbouring constituency.  The article includes a bizarre response from the Labour MP, who having once abandoned H&F to go to Ealing wants to make an improbable return to Hammersmith politics.

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Bargain Booze Banned

Shaun Bailey is quoted by HammersmithToday on coverage of H&F Conservative Council's move to crack down on anti-social street drinking around the Shepherds Bush Road area by stopping off licences from selling super strength lagers and ciders.

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Young, black and British: The young men who refuse to bow to the stereotypes

Shaun Bailey features in this Special Report by Yasmin Alibhai-brown & Daniel James Henry for The Independent.

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Bailey hails Obama victory

Aidan Jones of The London Informer talks to Shaun Bailey about the US Election result.

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Shaun on Woman's Hour

This week, Shaun Bailey appeared on Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4 to discuss race and gender in UK politics as well as sexual issues among adolescents.  Adoption issues were also discussed, in particular concurrent planning – the main goal of which is to reunite a baby with its birth family, while, at the same time, placing them with a foster family who will go on to adopt the child if it becomes necessary.  The scheme aims to reduce the amount of disruption to a baby who might otherwise be moved through different foster families before either being returned home or put up for adoption.

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You don't have to be black to 'get' Barack Obama

Shaun Bailey writes for The Sun on Barack Obama's election as President of The United States of America.

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The new message for black Britain

The Evening Standard reflects on the impact of Barack Obama's victory in the US Presidential election on British politics.

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Social evils: we must teach children manners to improve British society

Hannah Wooderson writes for 24dash.com on Shaun Bailey's contribution to the the Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s social evils initiative - currently exploring solutions to society’s ills through a series of commissioned Viewpoints.   Shaun says, teaching young people manners and an appreciation of other people’s feelings will improve Britain.

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Shaun Bailey welcomes no bus

The Save Our Streets blog welcomes Shaun Bailey's contribution to their campaign against Transport for London's plans to put a new bus route through residential streets in W12.

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Manners vital to the community, says Tory hopeful

Rachelle Money of the Sunday Herald reports on Shaun Bailey's speech to the Social Evils Debate, a conference held at the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh this week.

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Shaun Bailey: You Ask The Questions

Shaun Bailey asks readers of The Independent's questions, such as 'Is racism a problem in British politics?' and 'Do you think society is 'broken'?'

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Interview: Shaun Bailey - he's black, he's tough, and he's a Tory

Neil Tweedie of the Daily Telegraph interviews Shaun Bailey.

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Top 100 Conservatives: David Cameron's party shaping up for power

If the top 100 lefties list reflected in its volume of changes in position and large number of new entries the volatility of re-arranging chairs on the Titanic after the iceberg has hit, this list of top 100 Tories reflects David Cameron's conservative instincts that "if it ain't broke don't fix it" says Iain Dale and Briain Brivati in the Daily Telegraph.

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Boris must scrap this unjust charge

Shaun Bailey writes for the Evening Standard about the current consultation on the future of the western extension of the Congestion Charging zone.

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'Gang spotter guide' for parents

Parents are being given guidance on how to recognise signs their child may be in a gang reports BBC Online. But youth worker Shaun Bailey says by the time there were visible signs of membership it was "way, way too late"...

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A future Tory Cabinet: at least according to Tatler

Elizabeth Hopkirk and Robert Mendick of the Evening Standard report on a recent Tatler magazine article which looks at Conservatives standing for Parliament at the next general election, including Shaun Bailey...

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The house I grew up in

Wendy Robbins talks to Shaun Bailey as part of her BBC Radio 4 series revisiting the childhood neighbourhoods of influential Britons.  Shaun was raised by his extended Jamaican family on a tough west London housing estate. In this radio programme, he takes Wendy Robbins back to the place where he grew up, remembering how his mother's discipline and becoming an army cadet at 12 saved him from a life of crime and violence.

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Killer should be forced to clean my son's grave

Shaun Bailey on the panel at the News of the World's Save our Streets London roadshowPhilip Whiteside reports on the London Roadshow of the News of the World's Save Our Streets Roadshow at London's City Hall, which Shaun Bailey spoke at as part of the panel.

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Bringing black fathers back into the family

Shaun Bailey writes for the Sunday Times.

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David Cameron: ethics boy takes on drink, drugs and knife crime

Drink, drugs, knife crime – David Cameron says politicians need to be much firmer in declaring what’s right and what’s wrong if they are to tackle social breakdown write Jonathan Oliver and Isabel Oakeshott in The Sunday Times, including quotes and opinion from Shaun Bailey.

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Ray Lewis is still our best hope to beat knife crime

"Dealing with the knife crime epidemic is going to be a long, bumpy ride. In the short term, we need to improve the safety of our streets, thus making our children feel safer and less inclined to carry knives. Those caught carrying a blade in public without a proper excuse should expect to go to jail, not just get a caution, as most do at present.  But in the longer term, it's about a more ideological choice. And in that respect we can learn a lot from Ray Lewis, in or out of City Hall. We need to teach children self-discipline and respect for themselves and others. We need to provide them all with opportunities. We need to stop making excuses for them. And until we do so, we will continue to be shocked by these terrible crimes." Shaun Bailey writes for the Evening Standard...

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Crips and Bloods: How Britain's mobs are imitating US gangs

Gang culture in Britain has reached an alarming new level, as young people are attacked for wearing the "wrong" colours or unwittingly straying into hostile territory. The Times' Carol Midgley investigates.

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Gun gangs recruit eight-year-olds

Shaun Bailey asks the question "Where are the parents in all of this?" as part of Roger Waite's shocking Sunday Times article about gun gangs recruiting eight-year-olds. Read More

Britain wakes up to 'knife culture' after 16 teen deaths in year so far

Violent killings of teenagers by their peers have spiked dramatically in London since the start of the year, claiming 16 lives and prompting urgent action to prevent the spread of "knife culture".  In this article by AFP, Shaun Bailey gives his views on tackling this trend...

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What the people who work with troubled teenagers think

The Evening Standard's David Cohen finds out what leading Londoners who work with troubled teenagers think about tackling the problems with knife crime...

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A new breed of leaders can tackle knife culture

Lindsay Johns of The Evening Standard looks at the fight against knife crime, including Shaun Bailey's role working with Mayor Boris Johnson and Deputy Mayor Ray Lewis in leading that fight...

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Right on! So, is it finally cool to be a Conservative?

Across the country, there are signs that the formerly flabby Tory movement has at least become socially acceptable, and is acquiring a cultural and political cachet among the under-40s, writes the Independent's Oliver Duff...

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The new Tories: out of the blue

The Tories have succeeded in recruiting candidates from what would once have been thought of as enemy territory. But while the black security man, the woman boxer and the gay TV presenter may be closer to the people, are they still at arm's length from Team Cameron, asks Damian Thompson from the Daily Telegraph.

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'Army Cadets saved my life'

Ministers want to expand the Combined Cadets Force to more comprehensive schools, in a move backed by the Conservatives. In this article for the BBC News Magazine by Tom Geoghegan, Shaun Bailey explains how 15 years as a Cadet made him who he is today.

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Pilloried over post

Shaun Bailey, the 36-year-old black community worker, is already making waves in his campaign to become Conservative MP for Hammersmith at the next general election, writes the Telegraph's Spy column...

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Yes! Parenting classes for kids

Alice Miles of the Times writes: Every now and then you hear an idea that makes you sit up straight and think, that's it! It's so bleeding obvious - why didn't I think of it? It happened to me yesterday morning at 7.32am. And this was the idea: that schoolchildren as young as ten be given compulsory parentinglessons.   The idea was presented by Hammersmith Conservative Parliamentary candidate Shaun Bailey, speaking on the Today programme.

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Tory youth worker: Mentoring scheme nothing new

Plans to mentor troubled teenagers through a mandatory good-behaviour contract are nothing new, claims Shaun Bailey - as reported in an article published on politics.co.uk.

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Shaun on BBC Radio 4's Any Questions

Shaun Bailey appeared on the panel of BBC Radio 4's Any Questions on Friday 15th February 2008.

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Stop and search saves lives

Click here to read Shaun Bailey make the case for stop and search in The Sunday Times.

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Is this a good way to cut youth crime in the capital?

"Changing the rules on stop and search is a good idea because too many people are carrying knives in the knowledge that they are unlikely to be caught," argues Shaun Bailey in this article, first published in the Evening Standard in January 2008.

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Shaun Bailey: Inventing role models misses the point

Black teenagers won't be told who to look up to, least of all by government and the guilt-stricken white middle classes writes Shaun Bailey for The IndependentClick here to read the full article from August 2007.

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Black and blue

As an inner-city youth worker, Shaun Bailey ticks all the 'liberal' boxes. So how come he's a prospective Tory MP, and David Cameron's man on the street? Click here to read Hugh Muir's report in The Guardian from May 2007.

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Could Shaun Bailey represent the re-birth of the Tory party?

Click here to read Harriet Sergeant's report for the Daily Mail on Shaun Bailey's selection as Conservative Candidate for Hammersmith.

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Interview with Shaun Bailey

Click here to read ConservativeHome's interview with Hammersmith Conservative Candidate Shaun Bailey, just before he was selected in March 2007.

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Q & A with Shaun

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We must show our children what is right

Three young boys have were murdered in south London in the first two weeks of February 2007. This was tragic; should we be worried? In this article published in The Daily Telegraph, Shaun Bailey argues "of course we should."

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The reason our streets are so violent

Click here to read this article written by Shaun Bailey for The Daily Telegraph in January 2006.

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My battle with liberal Britain

Shaun Bailey was born on the west London estates that have been linked to investigations into the murder of WPC Sharon Beshenivsky. In this article for The Sunday Times, first published on 27th November 2005, he describes how pop culture and liberal politics have created a feral generation hooked on drugs, crime and violence.

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