Labour MP Rupa Huq is facing backlash after she called Britain's first black Chancellor a "superficially black man".
The shadow Home Office minister was sitting on a panel, alongside Shadow Equalities Minister Anneliese Dodds at a Labour fringe event that was meant to be focused on discussing the party's agenda on race.
A member of the audience questioned what policies Kwasi Kwarteng rolled out in his mini-budget that would positively affect the lives of black people living in Britian.
Reflecting on Mr Kwarteng's position in Government as a black man, the Labour member said: "What impact has that had on him becoming Chancellor and what impact has it had on his economic policy?"
Ms Huq responded: "I'm sorry, if I was not making myself understood.
"Superficially, he's like a black man. But again, he's got more in common... if you look at again, it's about Joe Cox and more in common.
"If you look at the current he went to Eton, I think he went to very expensive prep school all the way through the top schools in the country.
"If you hear him on the Today programme, you wouldn't you know, he's black. So my point is that it's kind of what you do."
She added: "He's got more in common with [David] Cameron."
Samuel Kasumu, Boris Johnson's former No10 advisor told the Mirror: "I was extremely disturbed to hear the words of Rupa Huq at a recent Labour fringe.
"If she believes that black people cannot go to good schools or that being well spoken is a denial of a black person’s heritage then I am afraid she is the person that needs to check her own biases and privileges.
"What upset me even more was her reference to Jo Cox.
"We need a politics that seeks to build bridges and not one that penalises people for being themselves or tries to put ethnic minorities into boxes."
Sunder Katwala, who was chairing the event for the British Future and Black Equity organisations challenged her and said: "There's something about this and I think the Labour Party has to be really careful.
"Kwasi Kwarteng is black british. He's black African.
"He's recognisably black... he's got very thatcherite economics. It's a black middle class view... he represents a particular postimperial blackness that constitutes his blackness.
"Now what you can say about him is you're not bringing the voice of black communities in for politics. It doesn't it doesn't make it not black."
At the event, a number of Labour councillors, and council members shared heartbreaking, revealing how "isolated" they felt within the party because of their race.
Tory party chairman Jake Berry raised his “serious concerns” in a letter to Labour leader Keir starmer.
Mr Berry tweeted the letter which said: “I trust you will join me in unequivocally condemning these comments as nothing less than racist and that the Labour whip be withdrawn from Rupa Huq as a consequence."
Mr Berry said that Sunder Katwala, who was chairing the event for the British Future and Black Equity organisations, was forced to challenge her remarks.
