Beard Liberation Front
12th December
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Jeremy Corbyn loses Parliamentary Beard of the Year vote by a whisker to Tory MP Stuart Anderson
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has said that Jeremy Corbyn has lost the Parliamentary Beard of the Year vote by a whisker to Stuart Anderson, the Conservative MP for Wolverhampton South-West.
Over 1700 people voted in the annual on-line poll with Stuart Anderson getting 48.1% of the votes to Jeremy Corbyn’s 43.7%.
The lead swung about in the final hours of voting between Anderson and Corbyn but ultimately the Conservative MP gathered enough support to beat the former Labour leader by a whisker.
The campaigners say that 20 years ago Jeremy Corbyn was one of the very few MPs with beards and comments were sometimes made in the Commons about his appearance. In 2020 the idea that male MPs must be clean shaven suit wearers is declining and there has been a significant rise in beard wearing amongst MPs of both main parties
However the Parliamentary Beard of the Year is not about the politics of MPs but about the positive impact their beard has made in public life during the year.
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, we congratulate Stuart Anderson and hope his beard continues to flourish. He only has another seven victories to go to equal the number of times Jeremy Corbyn has won it!
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