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Labour MP suspended for describing Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng as ‘superficially black’

MP Rupa Huq has been administratively suspended from the Labour Party after she described Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng as “superficially” black.

The MP for Ealing Central and Acton made the comments about Kwasi Kwarteng at a Labour conference fringe event on Monday.

In audio posted online by the Guido Fawkes website, Huq said: “Superficially he is a black man.

“He went to Eton, I think, he went to a very expensive prep school, all the way through, the top schools in the country.

“If you hear him on the Today programme, you wouldn’t know he is black.”

The comments were condemned by the Tory chairman, Jake Berry.

Berry wrote: “During an event organised by the British Future and Black Equity Organisation and attended by shadow secretary of state for women and equalities Anneliese Dodds, Rupa Huq made a number of racist comments about the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Kwasi Kwarteng.”

He continued: “Sunder Katwala, the event chair, was forced to respond to her appalling comments about the chancellor by saying his Conservative views ‘doesn’t make him not black… and I think the Labour Party has to be really careful’.

“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will join me in unequivocally condemning these comments as nothing less than racist and that the Labour whip will be withdrawn from Rupa Huq as a consequence.”

Following her suspension, Huq took to Twitter to offered Kwarteng her “sincere and heartfelt apologies.”

Calling her comments “ill-judged,” Huq said: “I wholeheartedly apologise to anyone affected.”

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