UK Labour Suspends MP for Calling Kwasi Kwarteng ‘Superficially’ Black
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UK Labour MP Rupa Huq has been suspended after audio surfaced of her describing Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng as “superficially” Black, a spokesperson for the party confirmed to Bloomberg News.
In audio, first obtained and posted by the politics blog Guido Fawkes, Huq says, “He’s superficially, he’s, a Black man but again he’s got more in common... he went to Eton, he went to a very expensive prep school, all the way through top schools in the country.” She later adds that, “If you hear him on the Today program, you wouldn’t know he’s Black.”