Abdul El-Sayed behind a lectern on election night with his wife, Sarah Jukaku.
Abdul El-Sayed on election night with his wife, Sarah Jukaku. He attended Oxford University as a doctoral student. Photograph: Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP
Abdul El-Sayed on election night with his wife, Sarah Jukaku. He attended Oxford University as a doctoral student. Photograph: Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP
Oxford, Bethnal Green and the Guardian: surprising British backstory of senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed

In a Guardian article in 2010, the Oxford Rhodes scholar said UK democracy had the ‘upper hand’ over the US