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Rupa Huq MP gives her support to Ealing Film Festival

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…

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

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…

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

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…

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

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…

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

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,

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

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…

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

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…

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

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…

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

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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