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Beard Liberation Front
9th December
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Voting open for Parliamentary Beard of the Year. 106 Hirsute MPs shaved down to 8 contenders
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has said that it faced an unprecedented challenge in drawing up its annual shortlist for the Parliamentary Beard of the Year.
However the vote for the Parliamentary Beard of 2025 is now open. There are two close shave rounds. The top two in each round go to a Beard Off final vote. Votes can be cast across social media platforms, Blue Sky, Facebook and Twitter
The General Election on July 4th 2024 saw the departure of a large number of existing MPs- mostly clean shaven Tories- and the arrival of an equally large number of Labour and LibDem MPs. Based on a liberal view of facial hair it is thought that that there are currently 106 MPs in the House of Commons with beards
The existing Parliamentary Beard of the Year holder Robin Swann remains a contender but the campaigners say they have been open to nominations for the 2025 shortlist.
The shortlist is NOT about the politics of the MPs on the list. It’s about whether their activities during the year have provided a positive image of the hirsute during the year. Obviously this can be disputed- how positive or otherwise- so the shortlist will go to a vote with the winner announced in mid-December.
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, there is no question that the Parliamentary Beard of the Year shortlist has been a challenge with so many new MPs albeit now eighteen months in. We are reasonably confident however that we have chosen MPs whose beards have made a positive impact in 2025
The shortlist
Chris Webb (Labour)
Jeremy Corbyn (Independent)
Colum Eastwood (SDLP)
Andy McDonald (Labour)
Nick Timothy (Tory)
Shockat Adam (Independent)
Robin Swann (UUP)
Chris Law (SNP)
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