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Daily Mirror
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Saira Khan

EXPLAINED: Rupa huq s racist comments about chancellor show labour is stuck in a time warp | Vintage Vibes

Labour MP Rupa Huq’s shocking comments about Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng at a Labour Party Conference fringe meeting left me angry and disappointed.

She was recorded as saying: “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.

“If you hear him on the Today programme you wouldn’t know he’s black.” Just imagine if a white MP had said that?

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