Social media does lead to some interesting byways.
Mark Seddon in a twitter discussion that was nothing at all to do with Charles Clarke’s beard until the BLF intervened suggested that the former Labour Minister and NUS President’s beard had withered away. By contrast Seddon noted that the beard was ‘always something of a disappointment. Frankly neither one thing nor another’.
However the BLF Research Dept has indicated this is an error.
When Clarke was President of the NUS he had a Corbynesque beard. As a Minister in the New Labour period his beard was hit by revisionist withering and has now virtually disappeared.
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