Sarah Vine gives her verdict:

“I know a certain ex-minister who is very much enjoying his new hipster look. Meanwhile, the female of the species is doing precisely the opposite: obsessively extracting every last vestige of bodily fuzz.

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.”

More stubbly than beardy, though the potential is there…

Photo via Londoner’s Diary