Sidney Webb, who was the President of the Board of Trade in the 1924 Labour Government was the only member with a full beard. Several other members had moustaches a familiar radical facial template even before Stalin.
Other well known Labour Cabinet members such as Arthur Henderson and Philip Snowden were determinedly clean shaven.
Webb was largely responsible for the 1918 Labour Party Constitution and the suspicion remains that a secret clause limited future Labour Governments to a beard and moustache quota for Ministers
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