Beard Liberation Front
Media Release
26th July
Contact BLF Organiser Keith Flett 07803 167266
Beard Campaigners press Sunak & Truss on Beard Friendly policies
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, that campaigns for a Beard Friendly Britain, is to press Tory leadership contenders Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss on how beard friendly their policies will be.
The campaigners say that while Boris Johnson was a noted pogonophobe it is estimated that around 20% of Tory members now wear beards.
The BLF has several areas where it would like to see more beard friendly policies:
A luxury shaving tax on all items such as razors, shaving cream, balms. Shaving is environmentally unfriendly
A crack down on the proliferation of barbers shops on High Streets
A specific Beard Friendly policy in the Civil Service
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, these are modest measures, but we think the Conservative Party is now ready to embrace beards. After all the last Prime Minister to wear a full beard Lord Salisbury was a Tory
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