Rupa Huq

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Rupa Huq
MP
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Official portrait, 2024
Member of Parliament
for Ealing Central and Acton
Incumbent
Assumed office
7 May 2015
2013Making Sense of Suburbia Through Popular CultureRoutledge ISBN   978-1780932248
On the Edge: The Contested Cultures of English SuburbiaLawrence and Wishart ISBN   978-1907103728
2016Reading the Riot Act: Reflections on the 2011 urban disorders in EnglandRoutledge ISBN   978-1138648388

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