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Buckingham Palace guards should swap bearskin caps with fake fur, MPs say
One headline uses "swap" and "Buckingham Palace guards," while the other uses "replaced" and "King's Guards" with "alternative."
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What happenedThe parliamentarians, from Labour, the Lib Dems and the Green Party, said the government’s use of real bearskin sourced from Canada is ‘impossible to justify’.
The headline splitThe left frames it as "Buckingham Palace guards should swap bearskin caps with fake fur, MPs say". The right frames it as "Bearskin caps worn by King's Guards should be replaced with fake fur alternative, MPs say".
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Left / center-leftBuckingham Palace guards should swap bearskin caps with fake fur, MPs say
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Right / center-rightBearskin caps worn by King's Guards should be replaced with fake fur alternative, MPs say
Buckingham Palace guards should swap bearskin caps with fake fur, MPs say
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The parliamentarians, from Labour, the Lib Dems and the Green Party, said the government’s use of real bearskin sourced from Canada is ‘impossible to justify’
Bearskin caps worn by King's Guards should be replaced with fake fur alternative, MPs say
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A cross-party group of MPs is urging the government to stop using real bear pelts to make the hats worn by the King's Guard and use fake alternatives instead.
