Labour suspends MP Rupa Huq over alleged racism against Kwasi Kwarteng

© Provided by City AM Huq told a Labour conference event that the chancellor is “superficially” a black man and that “if you hear him on Today programme, you wouldn’t know he’s black”.

Labour has suspended MP Rupa Huq for making allegedly racist comments against chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng.

Huq told a Labour conference event that the chancellor is “superficially” a black man and that “if you hear him on Today programme, you wouldn’t know he’s black”.

Tory party chair Jake Berry said he had “serious concerns” about her comments and that they were racist.

A Labour source said the Labour whip had been suspended from the Ealing and Acton MP and deputy party leader Angela Rayner said her comments were “unacceptable”.

In a letter to Starmer earlier today, Berry said: “I trust you will join me in unequivocally condemning these comments as nothing less than racist and that the Labour whip will be withdrawn from Rupa Huq as a consequence,” he wrote to Starmer

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