Show 216 - Shaun Bailey
Matt Forde's Political Party
The Political Party
4.7 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2021
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Episodes like this are why this podcast exists. Shaun Bailey is the Conservative candidate for Mayor of London, but his life could have taken a very different path. He tells Matt about how close he came to getting involved in gangs at a young age and the role that his mother, uncle and Star Wars played in keeping him away from a life of crime. Shaun also explains how growing up black and working class led him to join the Conservatives. This is a thought-provoking, frank and entertaining exploration of how our politics is born out of our personal experiences - and not always in the way that others might presume.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the political party as we hurt all towards polling day on May the |
| 0:13.4 | 6th. Today's guest is the Conservative candidate for Mayor of London, Sean Bailey. Before we |
| 0:18.2 | come onto that, I want to start by saying a big thank you to everyone who came to the Tony |
| 0:21.7 | Blair event this week. It's the first time I've done a streaming event. It was an absolute |
| 0:25.7 | pleasure. It was so much fun and always. It's great to have a guest that you can do the light |
| 0:30.8 | and shade with and obviously his work on Covid-19 has been incredible, highly influential. The |
| 0:36.4 | stuff he's done on the vaccine and I thought all that stuff about vaccine hesitancy was really |
| 0:40.3 | interesting and some really funny moments as well. So thank you to those of you that came. It was |
| 0:44.7 | a real pleasure and hopefully we can do some more of those in the future. A big thank you as well |
| 0:50.0 | to news that broke this week. Mace magazine, which is a political magazine, did a list of the top |
| 0:57.2 | 50 political podcasts and the political party. This very show was placed at number one, which I'm |
| 1:02.6 | very, very grateful for, very surprised by. But thank you to Ian Dale who compiled that list, |
| 1:08.0 | whose own podcast for the many is superb. The one who does with Jackie Smith, if you haven't heard |
| 1:12.0 | it, look it up. But it's always nice for another people mention it and when people leave nice |
| 1:17.8 | reviews on iTunes, which of course you can do. But to be placed at the top is very, very cool. So |
| 1:23.3 | thank you to all of you that listen because without you, people wouldn't know about this podcast |
| 1:27.0 | and thank you to Mace magazine. Thank you to Ian for being so kind. Oh, and while we're talking |
| 1:31.7 | about events, of course, as well as the Tony Blair streaming event that happened this week, |
| 1:36.0 | there are live events, the political parties returning to the stage in May and June in the West |
| 1:42.0 | end. So on the 24th of May, I'm at the Garick Theatre with Peter Mandelson and Sayy DeVassey |
| 1:47.6 | on the 25th of May, I'm at the Garick Theatre with Keir Starmer and Andrea Ledson. And on the second |
| 1:52.3 | of June, it was meant to be at the Garick, but it's now at the Valdivill, which is just around the corner. |
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