Rupa Huq

Rabiah "Rupa" Asha Huq (Bengali: রূপা আশা হক; born 2 April 1972) is a British Labour Party politician, lecturer, writer and DJ. She is Member of Parliament for Ealing Central and Acton, having been elected at the 2015 UK general election. She is the sister of Konnie Huq, a former Blue Peter TV presenter and was a senior lecturer in Sociology and Criminology at Kingston University in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. In 2005, she stood as the Labour parliamentary candidate in the safe Conservative seat of Chesham and Amersham in Buckinghamshire (Conservative majority of 11,882) at the 2005 General Election. She received 6,610 votes, losing to the Conservative candidate Cheryl Gillan who had 11,882 votes. Huq was one of three Labour candidates standing for a council seat in Walpole in the constituency of Ealing. In 2010, after the local elections, she became the Deputy Mayor of the London Borough of Ealing for the municipal year 2010 – 2011. In November 2013, Huq was chosen by Labour as their prospective parliamentary candidate for Ealing Central and Acton constituency to challenge Conservative MP Angie Bray at the 2015 General Election. In May 2015, Huq won the Ealing Central and Acton seat with 22,002 votes, previously held by Angie Bray who received 21,728 votes, with a turnout of 71.4%.

Links To Peel
In an article on The Tribune published in 2011, Huq described how digitalisation has changed music and also mentioning John Peel:


 * "Growing up as a suburban box bedroom pop follower, the landmarks in my fandom were Smash Hits every other Wednesday, Top of the Pops on Thursdays and, once I reached the sixth form, under the bedclothes listening to John Peel on Radio 1’s graveyard shift. Now none of these reference points exist. The singles chart, around which the first two revolved, has become a mystery as far as I am concerned.The seven-inch single is long gone, largely replaced by downloading, i-Tunes and the rest. Even the magic of discovering something new or an old obscure track by the likes of The Fall or Captain Beefheart track via Peel can be substituted with YouTube, LastFM and Spotify – each in their own way is an archive with everything on tap."

Huq also claimed to have recorded a Bengali jingle for Peel's show as one of the Foreign Language Announcers, although it has not been confirmed whether it was broadcast or when it was recorded.