A SECOND Labour MP spoke out yesterday over everyday racism and sexism faced by women and ethnic minorities in Parliament.
Dr Rupa Huq, who won Ealing Central and Acton from the Tories last May, said working in Westminster was still like working in a “gentleman’s club.”

She said some MPs “looked down their nose” at her for bringing her 11-year-old son into Parliament during school holidays and gave an insight into the arcane practices that persist, such as special “women’s rooms.”

“The fact that they have four different ‘women’s rooms’ implies that the whole of the rest of the buillding is for men,” she told the Pienaar’s Politics show on BBC Radio 5 Live.