UK Labour MP Suspended for Calling Conservative Minister ‘Superficially’ Black

UK Labour MP Suspended for Calling Conservative Minister ‘Superficially’ Black
Labour MP Rupa Huq arrives at the Cabinet office in central London on April 4, 2019. Adrian Dennis /AFP via Getty Images
Alexander Zhang
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The UK’s main opposition Labour Party has suspended an MP after she described a Conservative government minister as “superficially” black.

In an audio clip published online, Rupa Huq, the MP representing Ealing Central and Acton in west London, was heard discussing the elite school background of Kwasi Kwarteng, who became Britain’s first black chancellor of the Exchequer earlier this month.