Rupa Huq MP: I lived through the racism shown in Riz Ahmed’s Defiance and I’m not sure things are better now Read Rupa’s comment piece in the Evening Standard here. Read more →
House magazine review of Sadiq Khan’s “Breathe” 03 Aug 2023 This article first appeared in the House magazine. This well-written account of Sadiq Khan’s personal transformation into a leading climate campaigner is worthy of investigation This compact volume is part memoir, part call to arms. It starts when Labour’s currently most successful elected figure was an MP frustrated with both… Read more →
Times article: What I learnt from being an election scrutineer in Turkey 03 Aug 2023 This article first appeared in The Times. A burning bright fire of ballot papers slowly smouldering into a pile of ash on a lino floor at the corner of a primary school classroom is not my usual election day experience but this what I saw last Sunday in Turkey, where… 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 →