But Bailey said that when he talked to teenagers about sex he warned them this was not the case. “If a girl appeals to one that way, she’ll appeal to all of them. She’ll tend to have been around,” he wrote.

He went on to criticise the promotion of safe sex in sex education classes in schools, arguing against teenagers being given condoms and for parents to be informed if their daughter is planning to have an abortion.

“Handing out contraceptives makes sex more possible,” he said. “That sends a message and with young people that message is big. It says you are going to have sex and we’ll support you in that. The parents should be told that contraception is being handed out and absolutely a parent must be told if an abortion is being arranged,” he added.



Bailey also railed against the impact of drugs on the estate, warning that young girls were likely to start smoking before boys because “they have a smoker’s attitude”.

He wrote: “Girls are more likely to smoke to begin with – they have a smoker’s attitude. Cannabis use here is equal across girls and boys. Girls are more likely to smoke to begin with – they have a smoker’s attitude. The problem is if they come across a group of boys who smoke weed they need to appear cool. Then drinking and smoking and hanging around with the undesirables leads them to adopting a different sexual code. They let themselves be shared by the boys. I have been told that if a girl fancies your friend, you’ll make her sleep with you first to get to your friend. Young girls are starting to accept this.”

Bailey went on to make a series of comments about “working class” and “poor people” in his report. He claimed that “a culture of dependency rules the working class” and said they need “rules” to stop them turning to crime.

“This liberal agenda hasn’t benefited the working class,” he said. “The working class look to rules. The rules are important to them. Take away the rules and they are left in limbo. So they form their own: the kind which are driven by pop economics. Then they get into crime”.

He went on: “The more liberal we’ve been, the more the poor have suffered. Poor people don’t need all this liberalism. They need direction. All this over-caring liberalism is damaging.”

Labour MP Rosena Allin-Khan told BuzzFeed News: “This is appalling sexism and misogyny from Shaun Bailey. His attitudes towards women and people living in poverty are not just unacceptable, but absolutely vile. Londoners deserve so much better than Shaun Bailey’s regressive attitude."