Beard Liberation Front
7th April
Contact: Keith Flett 07803 167266
Should Keir Starmer grow a beard?
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has determined to launch a consultation poll on whether it should continue to ramp up its campaign to demand that new Labour leader Keir Starmer grows a beard.
Starmer replaces Jeremy Corbyn the first Labour leader with a beard since Keir Hardie.
However he is named after Keir Hardie and succeeded the late Frank Dobson as MP for Holborn and St Pancras. Dobson was named Beard of the Year 2000:
The campaigners say that the call for Starmer to grow a beard has received a mixed response from supporters.
Some have argued that as Keir Starmer is, in their view, a clean shaven revisionist he should avoid facial hair obscuring the point.
Others have suggested that growing a beard now would associate Starmer too closely to Jeremy Corbyn and provoke attacks from a pogonophobic media
BLF Organiser Keith Flett, we are keen to judge the public mood on whether Keir Starmer should wear a beard.
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