Beard Liberation Front
Media Release
13th February
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Campaigners slam Johnson Cabinet as characterised by pogonophobic prejudice
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has slammed clean shaven Boris Johnson’s new Cabinet as one characterised by pogonophobic prejudice.
The Cabinet has no member with a beard. Theresa May’s Cabinet from 2016 had the hirsute David Mundell as Scottish Secretary and her predecessor David Cameron’s Cabinets featured bearded Welsh MP Stephen Crabb.
Beards were common in the years of Labour Government from 1997 to 2010 despite Tony Blair and Gordon Brown being pogonophobes, or beard haters, themselves
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, Johnson’s new Cabinet is perhaps amongst the least fully inclusive of modern times and to feature not even one MP with a beard is inexcusable. He should know that the last Prime Minister with a beard was Lord Salisbury in 1902. Clearly he is not minded to follow that tradition.
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