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- Oct.15.2018: Shaun Bailey is not the mayor London’s women need. His remarks in a 2007 Guardian interview make for chilling reading. Where does the Conservative party find its candidates? Not content with insulting Muslims, Hindus and single mothers, the Conservative London mayoral candidate, Shaun Bailey, now stands to lose the votes of every woman in the capital. In remarks during an interview with the Guardian in 2007, Bailey said that underage girls were “using abortion as contraceptive”, while advocating reducing the abortion time limit to 22 weeks. Bailey is already under fire for previous comments he has made, after the re-emergence of a 2005 research paper in which he claimed that good-looking girls “tend to have been around”. The party responded by reaffirming that Bailey is “pro-choice” – which I suppose is true if your definition of pro-choice is letting women make decisions about their own bodies within the rules you have made for them. It is not sufficient for women to lobby those in power to make pro-women policies – we have to gain the positions of power to set those polices ourselves. Frances Ryan, The Guardian.
- Apr.18.2010: Shaun Bailey in Hammersmith: donors, helpers and "keeping it real". How are Hammersmith voters taking to the candidate who, more than any other, has been touted as personifying David Cameron's newly-minted Tories? Dave Hill, The Guardian.
