The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has said that it has taken a provisional view that the Conservative Conference in Birmingham is the most Beard Friendly of the three main Party Conferences in 2024.
The BLF has had observers at the Liberal Democrat and Labour Conferences but the view has been that while beards were present, there was little evidence that either event was particularly beard friendly.
By contrast the Tories currently have a hirsute chair Richard Fuller, and one of the four leadership contenders James Cleverley is hirsute.
The campaigners say that the Tory Conference has come from a very low benchmark where beards were very rare in conferences over many years to a situation this year where wearing a beard appears at least to have been normalised.
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, we can provisionally say, that the Tories in Birmingham may be the most Beard Friendly Conference, although there are concerns that Robert Jenrick is planning to announce a compulsory shaving policy if he wins the leadership
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