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It’s rare for any politician’s dress sense to go viral, but that’s what has happened to Jovan Owusu-Nepaul as he roams the streets and seafront of Clacton in Fair Isle knits and a Bogart trench coat. The 27 year-old Owusu-Nepaul hopes to defeat Nigel Farage to become the Clacton MP on 4 July in a tight three-way race between Labour, Reform and the Conservatives. The Goldsmiths (PPE) and Cambridge (History) graduate is the Labour candidate and has earned attention and plaudits for his stylish clothes, which he tells GQ are all bought at charity shops. Having joined Labour at 17, the first Afro-Caribbean chair of Lewisham and Deptford constituency party has interned for Kerry McCarthy MP and worked throughout his undergraduate degree with a not-for-profit initiative to get young people engaged in democratic processes.
