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… — Chuka Umunna Copy Share Image
I get quite bemused by the comments made about what I wear because, for African people, how you dress is very important. — Chuka Umunna Copy Share Image
Part of the reason young people are getting involved with gangs, leading to the use of guns and knives, is not the… — Chuka Umunna Copy Share Image
Ukip has policies including cutting taxes for the wealthy and putting them up for everyone else, charging people to see their GP,… — Chuka Umunna Copy Share Image
I have quite a different background from a lot of people in the Labour party - I'm of mixed heritage. — Chuka Umunna Copy Share Image
I have multiple identities, never mind ethnically but in other respects... and it's even worse when they try to do it by… — 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
We need to see many more people starting businesses and becoming their own boss, but the squeezed middle exists as much within… — Chuka Umunna Copy Share Image
I've never bought the argument that people are apathetic about politics. — 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
Getting from A to B can be crucial for small-business owners, self-employed people and freelancers too, who often rely on trains and… — Chuka Umunna Copy Share Image
I wasn't one of those people who had some grand plan to become Prime Minister. I'm a normal person. When I was… — Chuka Umunna Copy Share Image
People may not know what tier of government has competence over which policy area but they do draw a distinction between the… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
