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The 48-year-old appears to have spent the summer growing the shaggy beard as he recovers from being axed as Justice Secretary.

Mr Gove now finds himself on the backbenches after Theresa May booted him from the Cabinet in July.

The QPR fan was snapped today running around Westminster, donning red shorts and a blue T-shirt.

And tufts of grey and ginger hair could be seen on his face and chin.

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Even Mr Gove's wife Sarah Vine isn't impressed.

The mum-of-two said: "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."

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Writing in her Daily Mail column, the 49-year-old added: "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.

“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.”

Former UKIP leader Farage, 52, unveiled his new look recently.

He was seen with a moustache while appearing on a TV interview.