Boy, 7, cut his own fringe off after mum teased him for looking 'like Boris Johnson's offspring'

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A schoolboy teased by his own mum for looking like 'Boris Johnson's offspring' was left red-faced after hacking off his own fringe. George-Henry Denton, who hoped to one day grow his long locks into a man bun, took matters into his own hands after getting annoyed with the comparison to the messy-haired prime minister.

The seven-year-old decided to take a pair of craft scissors to his straight blonde hair, before proudly showing off his new do to his taunting mother. But mum Karly, 33, was left in stitches when she saw what her son had done.

George-Henry hadn't realised just how much of his fringe he and his six-year-old brother Frankie-James had hacked off, and burst into tears when he realised what he had done, Karly said. The fashion-savvy schoolboy still wants to grow his hair so Karly is now trying to salvage the dodgy cut by waxing the left-over fringe down while it grows back.

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Karly, from Grimsby, Lincolnshire, said: "I've said he looked like Boris for months. While it was going through the growing stage it didn't really lay properly, it just stuck out. I kept telling him he looked like the offspring of Boris Johnson. He kept telling me off.

"I showed him Boris and he said he doesn't look like that but I told him he really does. When he's just got out of bed and his hair sticks out so much, it's so funny. It kept falling down in his face and it was annoying him. I'd said in the morning that now it's at a nice length and it had gone through the awkward stage to where it actually looks nice, we could go and get it trimmed and tidied up."

But, while Karly was in the bath, George-Henry and his brother