Beard Liberation Front
27th September
Contact BLF Organiser Keith Flett 07803 167266
Resignation of Andy McDonald raises fears of Starmer beard purge
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has said that the resignation on Monday of Shadow Employment Secretary Andy McDonald, the MP for Middlesbrough, has raised fears that Labour leader Keir Starmer is engaged in a purge of beards at the top of Labour.
McDonald, who featured in the shortlist for the 2019 Parliamentary Beard of the Year, is one of the best known hirsute Parliamentarians.
The campaigners say that his resignation increases fears that the perpetually clean shaven Labour leader Keir Starmer wants a clear out of beard wearers in the Party. It comes after changes to how the Labour leader is elected, agreed by Labour Conference on Sunday, had already led to concerns that in future a leader was most likely to be a clean shaven man in a suit.
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, reports suggest that Andy McDonald resigned because Labour plans to move away from campaigning for a £15 minimum wage. This is an important principle and one we’d expect a socialist beard wearer to refuse to budge from, whatever the clean shaven revisionist faction in the Labour Party plans.
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