Abdul El-Sayed, newly elected as Michigan's senator, once praised British democracy in a 2010 Guardian article written as an Oxford Rhodes scholar. He described a Labour hustings in Bethnal Green as a "ceremony in communal self-determination" and said UK democracy had "the upper hand" on the US. His win followed a campaign marked by racism and Islamophobia.
Abdul El-Sayed's British past revealed after Michigan Senate win
Source: theguardian.com