Michael Gove spotted sporting new ‘hipster’ beard as he gets over losing Tory leadership race and being axed from the Cabinet
Leading Brexiteer and former Cabinet minister seen with facial fuzz while out jogging in west London
MICHAEL Gove seems to have spent his summer growing a ‘hipster’ beard as he gets over losing the Conservative leadership contest.
He had hoped to succeed David Cameron as Prime Minister, but now finds himself on the backbenches after Theresa May booted him from the Cabinet.
The leading Brexiteer looks to have used time away from the spotlight with Parliament in recess to get growing some facial fuzz.
After rumours swirled in Westminster yesterday he was sporting a new look, Mr Gove was pictured today newly hirsute.
Wearing red shorts and a blue t-shirt, tufts of grey and ginger hair could be seen on his face and chin.
It comes after Nigel Farage unveiled a new look, when he was seen with a new moustache while appearing in a TV interview.
The former Ukip leader set tails wagging with the set of whiskers, with comparisons of everyone from Ken Livingstone to Swiss Tony.
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As for Mr Gove, his wife Sarah Vine doesn’t seem to be a huge fan, reference his beard in her column today.
She wrote: “Tis the season of the holiday beard.
“Everywhere, normally clean-shaven gentlemen are letting their facial hair grow wild and free as they relax their regimes.
“I know a certain ex-minister who is very much enjoying his new hipster look.
“Even Nigel Farage is at it, sporting a rather dubious moustache."
"Meanwhile, the female of the species is doing precisely the opposite: obsessively extracting every last vestige of bodily fuzz," she adds.
“I can't be the only woman who wishes these tonsorial trends were reversed — and that for once we could be the ones to, er, let our hair down on holiday.”
So by the time MPs head back to Westminster next month, perhaps the ex-Justice Secretary may b back to being clean shaven.