Neil Pharaoh: Is Labor’s candidate for Prahran Australia’s hottest politician

THOSE guns, that puppy, the blue steel stare. Sorry, Jason Clare — we’ve found Australia’s new hottest politician.

28 year old Neil Pharaoh, is a Labor Party member who is leading a campaign to change the ALP platform to embrace gay marriage.

HE’S passionate about education, campaigns to end puppy farms and is a staunch advocate for gay rights and social justice.

But that’s not why the internet has decided Labor’s candidate for the inner city electorate of Prahran, Neil Pharaoh, is its new favourite politician.

Post by Neil Pharaoh for Prahran.

It’s more to do with the blinding smile, those amazing arms and they way they cradle that heart-meltingly adorable puppy.

Sorry, Jason Clare, we think we may have found Australia’s new hottest politicians.

The Pharaoh of our Hearts, as one adoring Facebook fan dubbed the 30-year-old is one of Labor’s young guns, and his puppy is Bruce.

@JaalaPulford meet Bruce! - only @VictorianLabor will protect dogs from a lifetime of misery in #puppyfarms #springst pic.twitter.com/h4TbA4Gw5w

— Neil Pharaoh (@Neilpharaoh) July 20, 2014

A former director at the Foundation for Young Australians and one of the driving forces behind the campaign to change the ALP’s national platform on gay marriage, Pharaoh has been chosen to fight to win back the inner city seat from the Libs come November 29.

Pharaoh’s Blue Steel.

If the social media vote alone is anything to go by, he could be in with a shot.

“Cute dog with even cuter man — heaven!!!” wrote one Facebook fan.

“With those guns I think the gay vote is secured,” another commented on the puppy-cradling pic.

@matwhi @tamasys lol, I can confirm @Neilpharaoh is lovely in person too.

— Jonathan Brown (@JB_AU) November 17, 2014

Pharaoh is pushing for the ALP to embrace gay marriage, but doesn’t have to do much for the gay community to embrace him.

Pharaoh has unofficially taken the title bestowed on ALP member for Blaxland Jason Clare by women’s magazine Cleo last year on its controversial “sexiest men in parliament” list.

After being awarded the honour, Clare was described by political rival and now foreign minister Julie Bishop as “the Rob Lowe of politics”.

Neil Pharaoh pointing at Neil Pharaoh (needs more Neil Pharaoh).