UK lawmaker Rupa suspended

An opposition Labour lawmaker was suspended from the party on Tuesday after being accused of making racist comments about British Finance Minister Kwasi Kwarteng, with a party spokesperson saying it would call on her to apologise.

Rupa Huq, a lawmaker who represents an area of west London, was accused of racism by Conservatives after the Guido Fawkes website published a recording of her saying about Britain’s first Black finance minister that “superficially he is a black man”, reports Reuters.

Asked about Kwarteng at an event at Labour’s annual conference in the northern English city of Liverpool, Huq spoke about his education at elite schools, and added: “If you hear him ... you wouldn’t know he is black.”