Rupa Huq has apologised and completed anti-racism training.
Rupa Huq has been reinstated as a Labour MP, five months after she lost the whip for comments she made about Kwasi Kwarteng.
The Ealing Central and Acton MP described then-chancellor Mr Kwarteng as "superficially black", at a Labour Party fringe event in September.Ms Huq, who said she fully accepted the sanction, has apologised and completed anti-racism training. She made the remarks during a Q&A session at a fringe event called What's Next for Labour's Agenda on Race?
Ms Huq said: "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.Mr Kwarteng, who had become chancellor earlier that month, was born in east London and has Ghanaian heritage.
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