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.
British Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng walks outside Number 10 Downing Street, in London on Sept. 6, 2022. (Toby Melville/Reuters)
“Superficially he is a black man,” she told a fringe event at the Labour Party conference held in Liverpool over the weekend….