Sadiq Khan set to review Perceval House redevelopment application next Monday

18 May 2021

This news first appeared in Ealing Today, Ealing Times, and Ealing Nub News.  The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan is set to make a key decision on Ealing Council’s Perceval House scheme next Monday (24 May). Campaigners opposed to the scheme are urging him to ‘call in’ the scheme as…

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Rupa Huq MP’s campaign diary

10 May 2021

This piece appeared in Ealing Today and Ealing Nub News.  It’s been a weird existence for me as an MP. From going from being a steady wage slave employed as a lecturer in higher education since the 1990s until 2015 I’ve now fought three elections, which by rights should mean…

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Rupa Huq MP shuns Chelsea for Hanwell Town in disgust at ‘greedy and elitist’ European Super League plans

20 Apr 2021

This news featured in Ealing Nub News, Ealing Today, and the Ealing Times.  Ealing Central and Acton MP Rupa Huq has attacked proposals for a breakaway European Super League and has committed to working cross-party in Parliament to stop it happening. Huq said she would support efforts to block plans…

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Rupa Huq MP challenges government decision to delay students’ return to university

18 Apr 2021

This news featured in Ealing Nub News, Ealing Times, and Acton W3. Ealing Central and Acton MP, Rupa Huq, has challenged the Government’s decision to delay the return of university students to campus. The Universities Minister, Michelle Donelan, confirmed that a return to in-person learning will resume from May 13,…

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Shadow Minister hosted by Rupa Huq MP at cladding crisis roundtable with 50 local residents

08 Apr 2021

This news first appeared in Ealing Today.  Almost 50 Ealing and Acton leaseholders dialled in to hear from the panellists, including Sebastian O’Kelly of the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership and Sarah Jones MP, Labour’s Shadow Fire Service Minister. Representatives from local housing associations, including A2 Dominion, Catalyst, Notting Hill Genesis and…

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Rupa Huq MP and community groups express outrage after Perceval House redevelopment is approved

01 Apr 2021

This news appeared in Ealing Nub News and the Ealing Times. Ealing Central and Acton MP Rupa Huq and community groups have expressed their disappointment after Ealing Council approved the controversial Perceval House redevelopment plans by 8 votes to 4 last night (31 March). The Council’s planning committee met virtually…

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Rupa Huq MP told off for wearing stop Heathrow expansion face mask in Parliament

01 Apr 2021

This news appeared in Ealing Nub News.

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Rupa Huq MP gives speech on redevelopment of Perceval House

19 Feb 2021

This news featured in the Ealing Times, Ealing Nub News, and the Ealing Gazette.  Ealing Council has deferred the decision to demolish Perceval House and replace it with 26 storeys of high-rise flats following Rupa Huq MP’s intervention at a virtual meeting of the Planning Committee last night (17 February).…

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Rupa Huq MP shares video aiming to combat vaccine hesitancy

11 Feb 2021

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Rupa Huq MP launches campaign to save UK hospitality businesses

18 Jan 2021

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Rupa Huq MP confirms early 2021 mass school Covid testing

14 Dec 2020

This news featured in the Ealing Times. 

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Rupa Huq MP presses Education Secretary to provide additional support for Ealing and Acton schools

09 Dec 2020

This news featured in Ealing Today, ActonW3, ChiswickW4, Chiswick Calendar and The Ealing Times. Ealing Central and Acton MP Rupa Huq has pressed Education Secretary Gavin Williamson MP to “compensate” local schools that have struggled with Covid-19, amid reports that at least 80 per cent of schools in the borough…

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Rupa Huq MP quizzes PM on homes in Ealing and Acton with unsafe cladding

02 Dec 2020

This news featured in Ealing Today, Acton W3, Chiswick W4, the Ealing Times and the Chiswick Herald.  Rupa Huq, the MP for Ealing Central and Acton has demanded answers from the Prime Minister on the “living nightmare” for residents trying to get hold of a safety validation for the tower…

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Rupa Huq MP’s Ealing Gazette column: Let the people decide on LTNs

18 Nov 2020

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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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