Eastern Eye comment piece: Ukraine’s refugee crisis replays the journeys of Ugandan Asians

This comment piece originally appeared in Eastern Eye.  Faced with a bombed-out House of Commons after the Second World War, Winston Churchill could have had the heavily damaged, long-outgrown Victorian-era chamber rebuilt to accommodate the correct number of MPs. Instead, it remained the same size – seating just 420 out…

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Rupa Huq MP: Ukraine’s refugee crisis replays the journeys of Ugandan Asians

This comment piece originally appeared in Eastern Eye.  Faced with a bombed-out House of Commons after the Second World War, Winston Churchill could have had the heavily damaged, long-outgrown Victorian-era chamber rebuilt to accommodate the correct number of MPs. Instead, it remained the same size – seating just 420 out…

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Rupa Huq MP in the Guardian: Johnson’s ‘war on woke’ in parliament is a shabby attempt to save his skin

This article first appeared in the Guardian. A government under potentially lethal fire and fearing for its very existence will do virtually anything to protect itself. That is the plight of this wretched government. It will contort reality, throw up flares and turn its face on decency – anything to…

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Rupa Huq MP in the i newspaper: As a Muslim MP I’ve long warned of damaging Islamophobia – a full audit into the Tory party must be launched

31 Jan 2022

This article originally appeared in the i. Being an MP is a privilege and honour. I love all the tradition but change towards Parliament reflecting society can be glacially slow. In a building dating to the year 1090, it took until 1987 for ethnic minority MPs to be elected. The…

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New year, new job?

21 Jan 2022

Job Details Rupa Huq MP is looking to recruit a full-time Administrator / Senior Administrator/ Office Manager / Chief of Staff (dependent on experience) to join her team working for her constituents in Ealing Central and Acton. The successful candidate will help run the MP’s busy Parliamentary Office, providing high…

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Rupa Huq MP and Matt Hancock MP call for a kinder politics in the wake of Sir David Amess MP’s horrific murder

Read the article on the Telegraph’s website, and listen to the podcast below for free:

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Guardian op-ed: I don’t want a life hidden by security, but we need to prevent violence against MPs

This op-ed featured in the Guardian. “So therefore I will be suing the council,” the greying gent, sat on the opposite side of the table from me, said triumphantly. I nodded but felt distracted. Not only was my mobile incessantly pinging, I was still trying to process the bombshell news.…

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Konnie and Rupa Huq on Blue Peter, Madonna and sisterly pride

This article featured in the Sunday Times Magazine. Konnie We were big TV watchers in our family. I remember me, Rupa and our older sister, Nutun, would often have our bath on a Friday night and then, as a treat, we could come downstairs. We’d be in our dressing gowns…

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Rupa Huq MP comments in Polish on decision to ban far-right Polish agitator from the UK

Click here for some English background to this matter (2018). Click here for an article featured in Vice yesterday. Nie jestem przekonana, że przeysylanie mi rasistowskich nadużyć przekona rząd Wielkiej Brytanii o antyrasistowskich referencjach Pana Zienkiewicza. Skontaktowałam się z naszą brytyjską ambasadorką w Polsce i jestem pewna, że wykona solidną…

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Telegraph op-ed: Councils must resist the Government’s LTN bullying and stand up for residents

Read Rupa’s opinion piece in the Sunday Telegraph. First it was Tory-run Wandsworth in south London that scrapped its Low-Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs). Then Labour-held Redbridge abandoned its Quiet Streets scheme. Now my neck of the woods, Ealing in west London, appears to be next. The botched handling of LTNs were…

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UPDATED: Afghanistan advice and support

Support for people in Afghanistan and their families *UPDATE 16 SEPTEMBER 2021* Please see the latest response I have received from Minister for Afghan Resettlement, Victoria Atkins MP:

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Rupa Huq MP’s statement on developments in Afghanistan

I share my constituents’ grave concerns regarding the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan. My thoughts are with the Afghan people. The world has been aghast at how the so-called democracy seemingly established in Afghanistan collapsed like a house of cards. Parallels with Vietnam and Iraq all came to mind over the…

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‘We must introduce buffer zones to stop the harassment of women outside abortion clinics’

Read our full comment piece at Politics Home.  Bernard Jenkin MP and I are bringing forward an amendment the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill today that aims to put a stop to the harassment and intimidation of women outside family planning clinics. Our amendment would establish buffer zones around…

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Rupa Huq MP slams Tory mayoral candidate for ‘victim blaming’ girls in comments on domestic violence

This news appeared in The Guardian. Rupa Huq, Labour MP for Ealing Central and Acton, said the comment was victim blaming. “Someone with Bailey’s hard right attitudes should simply never have the opportunity to lead a city that counts more than 4 million women and girls among its population,” she…

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Telegraph op-ed: LTNs have left women feeling unsafe

This opinion piece first appeared in the Sunday Telegraph. The death of Sarah Everard has rocked the nation and an outpouring of grief and anger has ensued. It’s also been a cathartic moment for many. For me, it brought back memories of a nasty knife mugging in my twenties that left me…

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House Mag: The book that changed my life

This article first appeared in House Magazine.

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Guardian opinion piece: Is Theresa May really the only Tory willing to hold this prime minister to account?

This opinion piece originally featured in the Guardian.  It pains me to say it but Theresa May is right. Who would have thought that the Maybot, who parroted meaningless platitudes, such as “Brexit means Brexit” and “strong and stable”, could think outside the box. But her analysis, in today’s Daily Mail, of…

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Rupa Huq MP: ‘The Government should be shouting from the rooftops about Vitamin D’

This comment piece first appeared in the Evening Standard. With three coronavirus vaccines now tantalisingly in sight but out of reach to most of us outside the 80-plus age group while a new variant spreads like wildfire through the capital, people understandably want out of endless lockdowns and crave a…

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Observer Magazine: Does Vitamin D Combat Covid?

This feature appeared in the Observer Magazine. 

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Rupa Huq MP: The sound of the suburbs is now one of revolt

22 Nov 2020

This comment piece first appeared in the Sunday Telegraph (22 November 2020).  To gain consent, it’s essential to properly consult. A referendum after the trial period would be the fairest way of ensuring that all residents have their voices heard. #LTNRef

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Rupa Huq MP convinces Government to recommend Vitamin D

Read the full story in i News. In a joint statement Ms Huq and Mr Davis said: “It is brilliant news that Matt Hancock is encouraging people to consider taking Vitamin D supplements and has accepted there are no downsides to taking it. It is also encouraging the government is…

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