MP for Ealing Central and Acton, Rupa Huq, has been reinstated as a Labour MP and had the whip restored five months after being suspended. 

Huq had previously had the whip withdrawn in September 2022, meaning she stood as an independent in the House of Commons, over comments she made about Kwasi Kwarteng, calling him "superficially black". 

Huq said of Kwarteng: "He's superficially, he's, a black man but again he's got more in common... he went to Eton, he went to a very expensive prep school, all the way through top schools in the country. 

"If you hear him on the Today programme you wouldn't know he's black." 

Her comments had been published as a recording on political blog Guido Fawkes, from when she was speaking at a fringe Labour Party event in Liverpool during the party conference. 

Huq was suspended for these comments and the Labour party branded them "totally inappropriate" and Sir Keir Starmer and Sadiq Khan have both said that the comments were racist. 

The MP has since apologised for the comments and said during her suspension that she had undertaken and completed anti-racism and bias training and as of 2nd March has been restored to the Labour Party.