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Rupa Huq MP gives her support to Ealing Film Festival

19 Oct 2020

This news featured in Ealing Today. Giving her support to the Film Festival, Ealing Central and Acton MP Rupa Huq has offered to host the award winners at her workplace. She spoke of the significance of Ealing in the history of the film industry and said ” We’re lucky to…

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London Covid: Boris Johnson is ‘several steps behind the curve’, warns Rupa Huq MP

13 Oct 2020

Read the full story on MyLondon. Dr Huq MP told MyLondon: “At a time of national crisis we’ve tried to be a constructive yet broadly supportive opposition. “We will consider Boris Johnson’s proposals, but increasingly I’m worried about a lack of transparency and strategy in this plan. “Our increasingly inept…

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Conservationists and Rupa Huq MP call on residents to help out and protect Barons Pond

30 Sep 2020

This news featured in the Ealing Times. Volunteers calling upon Ealing residents to help restore the neglected water-feature Barons Pond to its former glory have, with the services of a digger, dredged out what was an undistinguished mess and have big plans to open it up to the public once…

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Rupa Huq MP meets with supermarket staff to discuss worrying increase in abuse towards retail workers

30 Sep 2020

This news featured in the Ealing Times. Supermarket shop workers last week told their local MP of the worrying rise in abuse they have received since the Covid-19 pandemic started. Ealing Central and Acton MP Rupa Huq met with Morrisons Acton on High Street after 23 of the UK’s top…

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Rupa Huq MP seeks clarity on Low Traffic Neighbourhoods from Ealing Council

14 Sep 2020

After receiving correspondence running into a figure sum on the low traffic neighbourhood experiment in Ealing, I have written to the council asking them to clarify the rationale and mechanics of the 6 month consultation while the trial is underway,

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Rupa Huq MP’s Ealing Gazette column: ‘Dreams shattered by algorithm’

02 Sep 2020

After abruptly ending for most kids in March, schools return in full next week. Of course they never really went away. Our valiant teachers literally went above and beyond – including covering Easter and half terms tor keyworker and vulnerable students at the height of coronavirus. To call this past…

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Rupa Huq MP intervenes to help 18-year-old get Cambridge place following A-Levels results fiasco

25 Aug 2020

This news featured in The Chiswick Herald and Acton W3. The 18-year-old student whose letter to Boris Johnson went viral amid the A-level results fiasco has today received confirmation from Cambridge that she will be able to study there. Acton-based Maimuna Hassan, 18, of Chiswick School, hoped to study Engineering…

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Rupa Huq MP and Ruth Cadbury MP welcome Government U-turn on student grades

18 Aug 2020

This news featured in Ealing Today and Acton W3. Local MPs have welcomed the Government’s U-turn on A-level and GCSE grades, with Rupa Huq describing it as “a victory for the thousands of students who spoke out against this historic injustice.” Both the MP for Ealing Central and Acton and…

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Rupa Huq MP and Acton firefighters take part in minute’s silence for Beirut explosion victims

11 Aug 2020

This news featured in The Ealing Times and ActonW3. The two places may be quite literally a million miles away, with one prone to civil war and the other the swathe of west London linking Ealing with Shepherds Bush, but Beirut was at one with Acton on Friday lunchtime with…

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Rupa Huq MP praises Acton-based uniform designers for pioneering virus-killing apron

03 Aug 2020

This news featured in ActonW3. An Acton-based luxury uniform designer that turned its hand to producing face coverings and virus-killing aprons has been hailed by Rupa Huq MP for their “inventiveness and public spirit.” Fashionizer, which is based on Roslin Square, Acton, saw its takings fall dramatically when lockdown was…

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Rupa Huq MP condemns closure of last bank in West Ealing

03 Aug 2020

This news featured in The Ealing Times and Ealing Today. The planned closure of the West Ealing branch of Barclays bank in October will be “a great loss to the community”, Rupa Huq MP has today said. The London-headquartered bank made the decision to close the branch public on July…

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Rupa Huq MP presses management for return of Acton Post Office during visit to old workplace

29 Jul 2020

This news featured in ActonW3. Rupa Huq MP challenged Post Office management to re-establish a post office in Acton during a tour of her old place of work — the Ealing Broadway branch of WHSmith. The Ealing Central and Acton MP, who started her career with a Saturday job at…

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Rupa Huq MP gives her support to Ealing Film Festival

London Covid: Boris Johnson is ‘several steps behind the curve’, warns Rupa Huq MP

Conservationists and Rupa Huq MP call on residents to help out and protect Barons Pond

Rupa Huq MP meets with supermarket staff to discuss worrying increase in abuse towards retail workers

Rupa Huq MP seeks clarity on Low Traffic Neighbourhoods from Ealing Council

Rupa Huq MP’s Ealing Gazette column: ‘Dreams shattered by algorithm’

Rupa Huq MP intervenes to help 18-year-old get Cambridge place following A-Levels results fiasco

Rupa Huq MP and Ruth Cadbury MP welcome Government U-turn on student grades

Rupa Huq MP and Acton firefighters take part in minute’s silence for Beirut explosion victims

Rupa Huq MP praises Acton-based uniform designers for pioneering virus-killing apron

Rupa Huq MP condemns closure of last bank in West Ealing

Rupa Huq MP presses management for return of Acton Post Office during visit to old workplace

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