When you lose work, the meaning and purpose of life are taken away from you, and isolation can set in. — Chuka Umunna Copy Share Image
We are determined to work in partnership with business not only towards our goal of full employment, but for more secure jobs… — Chuka Umunna Copy Share Image
Shopping in the future can become an experience where conventional retailers can complement the success of online retailing. Government needs to work… — Chuka Umunna Copy Share Image
We must never forget the value of work because without it people are denied a sense of dignity and of community. — Chuka Umunna Copy Share Image
A prerequisite to the inclusive prosperity that will increase equality and reduce poverty is growth. This requires an innovative economy in which… — Chuka Umunna Copy Share Image
The Labour perspective is often very preoccupied with either the super-rich or those who don't have work - but doesn't have nearly… — Chuka Umunna Copy Share Image
Work is the way we contribute to society, part of a reciprocal social contract - the giving of our effort and our… — Chuka Umunna Copy Share Image
Back in the 1980s parts of our country were devastated by de-industrialisation. This wave of globalisation and the first fruits of technological… — Chuka Umunna Copy Share Image
While we are clear that it is right that those who work hard, generate wealth and create jobs for our country are… — Chuka Umunna Copy Share Image
My father had hammered into me, you want to look after your family, you want a nice house, and you want to… — Chuka Umunna Copy Share Image
I think the first person to call me 'Britain's Obama' was Martin Bright at the New Statesman. Harriet Harman made the comparison once at… — Chuka Umunna Copy Share
The reason I have been so outspoken on antisemitism is that racism is racism - and my family have been victims of it. — Chuka Umunna Copy Share
Requiring fund managers to disclose how they vote would increase accountability and mean that pensioners and ordinary investors would more easily be able to… — Chuka Umunna Copy Share
Whether it is clamping down on tax avoidance by multinationals, setting ambitious targets for tackling climate change, or reforming the posted workers' directive to… — Chuka Umunna Copy Share
Leaving the single market, making communities poorer and more alienated, is not the way to deal with public concerns about immigration, most of which… — Chuka Umunna Copy Share
We do not just strive for a society in which every person has the opportunity to reach their full potential (all parties lay claim… — Chuka Umunna Copy Share
Being outside the customs union would mean masses of new red tape, a desperate scramble for trade agreements and the re-emergence of a border… — Chuka Umunna Copy Share
I have a confession to make: I am a Labour parliamentary candidate but like and get on with some of the Conservative persuasion. — Chuka Umunna Copy Share
My stock answer when people ask 'Are you Britain's Barack Obama?' is 'I'm quite happy being Streatham's Chuka Umunna,' and I really mean that. — Chuka Umunna Copy Share
If truth be told, certainly culturally, I never felt totally comfortable in the Labour party, because I've never really been a massively tribal politician. — Chuka Umunna Copy Share
One way to promote shareholder engagement and activism is through greater accountability and transparency. — Chuka Umunna Copy Share
Look, I like my music, and I don't have a conventional background for a politician, but I'm pretty conventional in many senses. — Chuka Umunna Copy Share
