Ealing MP reveals she will abstain on Brexit deal vote

By Dimitris Kouimtsidis

26th Aug 2021 | Local News

Ealing Central and Acton MP, Rupa Huq will abstain tomorrow
Ealing Central and Acton MP, Rupa Huq will abstain tomorrow

EALING Central and Acton MP, Rupa Huq has revealed she plans to abstain at tomorrow's Brexit deal vote.

The Labour MP, who first won her seat from the Conservatives in 2015, revealed earlier today that she will abstain at tomorrow's vote – which is expected to pass through the House of Commons.

Huq was a guest on Times Radio Breakfast this morning and was asked about the impending vote tomorrow once Parliament is recalled from their Christmas holidays.

The 48-year-old mentioned that she did not want to 'endorse this particular deal' but that 'a deal is better than no deal.'

She said: "The deal will pass; the Conservatives have a majority of 80.

"I don't want to consent to it, it's got a lot of things wrong with it.

"By abstaining, you're nodding it through without having your fingerprints too closely on it."

Huq won Ealing Central and Acton from former Tory MP, Angie Bray in 2015, in a very slim majority of only a couple of hundred votes, but increased that majority drastically both in the 2017 and 2019 elections.

She campaigned heavily in favour of remaining in the EU and claims that Conservative voters who also voted remain, voted for her in the last election because of this.

"I won my constituency the last two times with a much bigger majority, saying I would campaign to remain and lots of Conservative voters came over to me.

"I'm voting for what my constituents want, I wouldn't be able to look them in the eye, I represent a very remain constituency.

"My voters are my employers, not Boris Johnson," she added.

Huq also mentioned that she respects her fellow Labour MPs who choose to follow the whip and vote in favour of the deal.

She said: "I completely respect and understand their decision, I see the logic behind their decision."

Labour leader, Keir Starmer is facing a rebellion ahead of the vote tomorrow, with many high-profile Labour figures such as former Shadow Chancellor, John McDonnell accusing Starmer of 'falling into the trap of rallying around this rotten deal.'

     

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