MP Rupa Hook has been suspended from the parliamentary Labor Party after she described Kwasi Kwarteng as “superficially” black.
In the audio, posted online, Ms Huck can be heard discussing the chancellor’s elite school, before adding that there was “no way you could tell he was black” when listening to it on the radio.
The Ealing Central and Acton MP’s comments appear to have been made at a side event at the Labor conference in Liverpool on Monday.
Earlier this month, Mr Kwarteng became Britain’s first black chancellor.
Tory party leader Jake Berry expressed his “serious concern” in a letter to Sir Keir, with the audio released by Guido Fox’s website shortly before his speech at the conference.
“I trust you will join me in unequivocally condemning these comments as nothing short of racist and that the Labor whip will be withdrawn from Rupa Hook as a consequence,” he wrote.
Ms Huck is said to have been sitting next to Labor leader Annelise Dodds when she made the remark.
In the audio, Ms Huck can be heard saying: ‘On the face of it, he’s black.
“I think he went to Eton, he went to a very expensive prep school, all the way, the best schools in the country.
“If you heard him on the Today programme, you wouldn’t know he was black.”
Mr Berry said Sunder Katwala, who chaired the event for UK organizations Future and Black Equity, was forced to dispute her remarks.
According to the Tory MP, Mr Katwala said the chancellor’s Conservative views “do not make him black … and I think the Labor Party needs to be really careful”.
Shadow foreign secretary David Lammy told the BBC he would not have made the comments, describing them as “disappointing”.
Labor deputy leader Angela Rayner also called on Ms Hook to apologize for the remarks.
He said he hoped Ms Huq would “leave these comments ready”.