Beard Liberation Front
Media Release
2nd September
Contact Keith Flett 07803 167266
World Beard Day: 121 year gap since last Hirsute Prime Minister underlines political fear of beards
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has said that on World Beard Day, 2nd September, it is remarkable to reflect that Britain has not had a Prime Minister with a beard since Lord Salisbury in 1902.
Several Prime Ministers since 1902 have had facial hair, including moustaches worn by Attlee and Macmillan, but none has had a beard.
Jeremy Corbyn who has won the vote for Parliamentary Beard of the Year a record number of times failed to change the clean shaven pattern when he lost the 2019 General Election.
The campaigners say that there is evidence that political leaders who are either bald or wear beards or both face considerable prejudice which should have no place in Britain in 2023
BLF organiser Keith Flett said, Lord Salisbury was of course a Tory and we hoped that Jeremy Corbyn could break new ground and become the first ever Labour PM with a beard. It was not to be and now the leaders of the four largest parties at Westminster are all clean shaven men in suits again.
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