Beard Liberation Front
27th August
Media Release
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Lack of Diversity at top of UK politics slammed as Ed Davey makes it 4 clean shaven men in suits
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has slammed the complete lack of diversity at the top of Westminster politics.
With the election of Sir Ed Davey as Liberal Democrat leader all the top four parties represented at Westminster (by seats) are led by clean shaven white men in suits.
The campaigners say that while they are still waiting for the first Prime Minister with a beard since 1902 it goes much wider than that, in respect of the signals it sends to anyone who is not a male middle class suit wearer, about Parliamentary politics in the UK.
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, Boris Johnson, Sir Keir Starmer, Ian Blackford and Sir Ed Davey have different politics but image wise they appear as one. That cant be a good thing for democratic politics.
Your editorial on the election of Sir Ed Davey as Liberal Democrat leader (27 August) misses a key point. The leaders of the four largest parties in parliament are now all clean-shaven, middle-aged white men in suits. Two have knighthoods. This is what diversity in 2020 at Westminster looks like it seems.
Keith Flett
Tottenham, London Guardian 29th August
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