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27 October 2014

David Cameron refused five times to wear ELLE’s feminist t-shirt

The PM refuses to pose wearing a "This is what a feminist looks like" t-shirt for ELLE magazine.

By Media Mole

“Why is David Cameron so afraid to call himself a feminist?” is the question ELLE magazine is asking today.

The magazine asked Ed Miliband, Nick Clegg, and the PM (among some male celebrities) to pose wearing the Fawcett Society’s famous slogan t-shirt that reads “This is what a feminist looks like”. Miliband and Clegg obliged. But the magazine claims Cameron refused its request not once, but five times.

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