Magid Magid: 'If you try to be everyone’s cup of tea you might as well be a mug'

Green party MEP never intended to fit the mould and hopes his election sends a message to nationalists across the EU

It’s a long way from the Glastonbury stage to the European parliament chamber in Strasbourg. Magid Magid, one of Britain’s newest MEPs, is probably the only politician who has appeared at both venues this week.

Magid, one of six MEPs for Yorkshire and the Humber, is not a typical politician. He is a black Muslim in a parliament where minority ethnic politicians have long been underrepresented. Nor does he bother with the typical male political uniform of suit and tie. He arrived for work in Strasbourg on Tuesday wearing green Dr Martens boots, Bermuda shorts, a yellow baseball cap worn backwards and a black T-shirt with the slogan “F**k Fascism”. His fluorescent Glastonbury band was still tied to his wrist. He had been at the festival speaking at an event on tackling racism, Islamophobia and antisemitism.

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