Never Quotes by Chuka Umunna

My father, when he arrived in this country found it difficult.

— Chuka Umunna

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

The reason I have been so outspoken on antisemitism is that racism is racism - and my family have been victims of it.

— Chuka Umunna

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sometimes it requires national impetus to deliver real change.

— Chuka Umunna

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

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