We need to see many more people starting businesses and becoming their own boss, but the squeezed middle exists as much within this group as in the population at large as rising costs are hitting small businesses - who after… — 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
