Rupa Huq has Labour whip withdrawn after Kwarteng comments

Party whip suspended after Labour MP accused of making racist' comment about chancellor

A Labour MP has had the party whip suspended after she was accused of making a racist" comment by claiming that the chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, was superficially" black.

Rupa Huq, a former shadow Home Office minister, was recorded at an event held on Monday during a fringe event as part of Labour's annual conference in Liverpool hosted by British Future and the Black Equity Organisation and also attended by the party's chair, Anneliese Dodds.