The Conservative candidate for London mayor, Shaun Bailey, has been criticised for newly emerged feedback wherein he prompt teenage moms pushed individuals who “do the correct factor” down the housing ladder.
Bailey has beforehand been condemned for feedback about teenage pregnancies, suggesting that distributing condoms inspired ladies to get pregnant.
Labour mentioned the newly unearthed feedback, made to the Solar in 2010, have been “fully unacceptable” and “reek of misogyny”.
Bailey, who’s trailing Labour’s Sadiq Khan within the polls forward of the Might elections, advised the Solar that teenage being pregnant was disadvantaging different housing claimants. The article now not seems on-line however has been archived.
“Teenage ladies won’t get pregnant simply to get a flat, however they’re rather a lot much less cautious as a result of they know they are going to be taken care of on advantages. So people who find themselves attempting to do the correct factor get pushed down the housing ladder, however no one in our PC world will speak about it,” he advised the newspaper when he was the Tory common election candidate for Hammersmith in west London.
The shadow minister for psychological well being, Rosena Allin-Khan, mentioned: “Shaun Bailey’s views about ladies reek of misogyny and are fully unacceptable in Twenty first-century London. He merely has the mistaken values for London.
“Not solely does he peddle Trump-like faux information and assault Londoners’ values on variety, however he has a historical past of repeatedly selling his deeply misogynistic views.”
A Bailey marketing campaign spokesperson mentioned: “It could be good politics to misrepresent feedback remodeled a decade in the past, nevertheless it received’t assist Londoners safe safer streets, extra inexpensive properties or a greater transport community. If Sadiq Khan and Labour select to run a marketing campaign primarily based on private assaults slightly than their document in London, folks will draw their very own conclusions as to why that’s.”
The Conservative candidate has made a sequence of controversial feedback throughout the marketing campaign, together with suggesting that homeless Londoners might save up a £5,000 deposit for a mortgage. Labour has additionally referred to as for the Crown Prosecution Service to research Bailey’s publication of leaflets headed with faux Metropolis Corridor insignia, calling it a “fraudulent system” to achieve undue affect, as described by the 1983 Illustration of the Folks Act.
He additionally made remarks in a 2008 Guardian interview wherein he expressed concern that terminations have been getting used flippantly by underage ladies and mentioned the restrict needs to be diminished to 22 weeks. “Our youngsters are utilizing abortion as contraceptive – that is the actual drawback,” Bailey mentioned within the interview, given when he was operating because the Conservative candidate for Hammersmith.
He has been dogged by information tales detailing earlier feedback about teen being pregnant, single moms and welfare, together with from 2005, when he mentioned “a tradition of dependency guidelines the working-class” and “this liberal agenda hasn’t benefited the working class. The working class look to guidelines. The foundations are vital to them. Take away the principles and they’re left in limbo.”
