Beard Liberation Front
Media Release 10th June
Contact Keith Flett 07803 167266
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has said with a Tory leadership election underway the Tories record, held since 1902, of having the last Prime Minister with a beard is under threat.
None of the ten candidates has a beard and Jeremy Corbyn, seven times winner of the Parliamentary Beard of the Year Award, remains well placed to be the next PM
The campaigners say that while, as David Cameron underlined, image is not everything in politics it is important. The Tory Party has done solid work in having two female leaders, whatever may be thought of their political agendas. However its image, and particularly that of the right-wing ERG is of middle aged, clean shaven white men in suits. It does not reflect how the vast majority of the country sees itself.
The BLF says that until recently there would have been a struggle to find suitable hirsute candidates to be Tory leader but that has now changed. Candidates could have included the runner-up for the 2018 Parliamentary Beard of the Year Award Ben Bradley MP or former Minister Stephen Crabb.
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, we’re hoping that the next General Election sees the first hirsute Prime Minister since Lord Salisbury in 1902. The odds on might well be on Jeremy Corbyn since the Tories appear desperate to be clean shaven
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