Lord Bailey: I Could Have Ended up in a Gang Instead of the Army Cadets

The Conservative peer said male role models, ambition, good people, and the Army Cadets helped keep him away from poverty and crime.

Lord Bailey of Paddington speaks to NTD's "British Thought Leaders" programme. NTD

At 12 years old, the Army Cadets was “the only gang” attractive enough to keep Lord Bailey of Paddington out of a street gang.

Having grown up in a council house in one of the poorer parts of London, Shaun Bailey has become a youth worker, charity founder, and a Conservative peer.