Rupa Huq MP: I lived through the racism shown in Riz Ahmed’s Defiance and I’m not sure things are better now 01 May 2024 Read Rupa’s comment piece in the Evening Standard here. Read more →
Telegraph report on banking hubs This comment was included as part of this Telegraph article (£). “Acton was earmarked for a banking hub with great fanfare late last year and it’s still not happened,” said Dr Rupa Huq, the MP for the West London area. “There have been delays with signing the lease on the identified site owned… Read more →
Rupa Huq MP on the suburbs in the Sunday Times Read the article in the Sunday Times. If Tom and Barbara had wanted to move to Surbiton to become “totally self-sufficient” today, they would face more than sniffy comments from their neighbours, Margo and Jerry. The young couple in the sitcom The Good Life may not be able to move to the… Read more →
Politics Home: Government accused of “squandering” money on “catastrophic” project dubbed “Festival Of Brexit” Please click here to see Rupa’s comment on Politics Home. Rupa Huq, a Labour member of the DCMS Committee, told PoliticsHome: “The government’s spectacularly botched ‘Festival of Brexit’ has proven itself to be a complete waste of £120m worth of taxpayers’ money in the midst of a cost of living… Read more →
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… Read more →
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… Read more →
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… Read more →
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… Read more →
Rupa Huq MP on her inbox full of outrage over Boris Johnson’s lockdown parties 21 Jan 2022 This article was first published on Ealing Today. Happy New year – if one can still say that? We’re only days into 2022 but it’s already turning out to be a bumper one with heavy news agenda: NoVax DjoCovid banned from Oz? Prince Andrew losing all his privileges? Chinese interference… Read more →
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: Read more →
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.… Read more →
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… Read more →
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… Read more →
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… Read more →
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: Read more →
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… Read more →
‘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… Read more →
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… Read more →
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… Read more →
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… Read more →