Suspended MP Rupa Huq's description of Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng as "superficially" black was "racist", Keir Starmer has said.
Ms Huq, the MP for Ealing Central and Acton, offered a "sincere and heartfelt" apology to Mr Kwarteng over her "ill-judged" comments at a party conference fringe event.
She was administratively suspended yesterday after it emerged that she had told delegates: "If you hear him on the Today programme, you wouldn't know he's black."
