IS WORK and Pensions Secretary and ultra-Blairite James Purnell a closet Trotskyist? At The Guardian’s ever-popular conference party, the mullet-sporting minister revealed what had happened to his distinctive mutton-chop sideburns. Mr Purnell grew that most un-Blairite of facial appendages, a beard over his summer holiday, only to shave it – and the sides – off when he came back. Surely a commendation from Keith Flett’s Beard Liberation Front cannot be far away.
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