Shaun Bailey, the Conservative Party’s candidate to be Mayor of London, was born in a council house and raised by a single mum. He went through periods of homelessness and unemployment. Shaun spent twenty years as a youth worker, getting kids out of crime and into work. His youth work brought him to the attention of Prime Minister David Cameron, who asked Shaun to join the team in Downing Street. During his time in government, Shaun helped to deliver the National Citizen Service, the largest youth programme in British history. And he helped to expand access to the Army Cadets, a programme that helped Shaun stay on the straight and narrow in his teenage years. Shaun has spent the last four years as an Assembly Member in the Greater London Authority and says this has made him see how politicians are failing Londoners.