Chuka Umunna, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Chuka Umunna

British politician and lawyer

Date of Birth: 17-Oct-1978

Place of Birth: London

Profession: writer, lawyer, politician

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Libra

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About Chuka Umunna

  • Chuka Harrison Umunna (; born 17 October 1978) is a British Liberal Democrat politician and former Member of Parliament (MP) for Streatham from 2010 until 2019, originally elected as the Labour Party candidate.
  • As a former member of the Opposition Shadow Cabinet, he was Shadow Business Secretary from 2011 to 2015.
  • He was a member of the Labour Party until February 2019, when he resigned to form The Independent Group (later renamed Change UK) along with six other MPs.
  • He left Change UK in June 2019 and, after a short time as an independent MP, joined the Liberal Democrats.
  • He stood as the Liberal Democrats' candidate in the Cities of London and Westminster constituency in the 2019 general election, and lost to Nickie Aiken for the Conservatives. Umunna was educated at St Dunstan's College in Catford in the London Borough of Lewisham, before studying at the University of Manchester and Nottingham Trent University.
  • He worked as a solicitor in the City of London, first for Herbert Smith and then Rochman Landau, while writing articles for the Compass think tank.
  • He joined Labour when the party styled itself as "New Labour" and, when in parliament, he aligned with the party's "Blue Labour" trend, which rejects neoliberal economics.
  • Whilst a member of the Labour Friends of Israel group, he condemned Israel's military courts for their treatment of Palestinian children accused of combat offences.Umunna was selected as Labour's parliamentary candidate for Streatham in 2008, and was elected MP in the 2010 general election.
  • A supporter of the unsuccessful campaign to retain UK membership of the European Union in the 2016 referendum, he then campaigned for a referendum on the final deal with the EU. In 2011, Umunna joined the Shadow Cabinet under Ed Miliband's Labour leadership.
  • In Parliament, he sat on the Treasury Select Committee.
  • He was re-elected in the 2015 and 2017 general elections.
  • After Miliband's resignation, Jeremy Corbyn was elected Labour leader in 2015; Umunna was critical of the party leadership and resigned from the Shadow Cabinet to sit as a backbencher.
  • Umunna resigned from the Labour Party and joined The Independent Group on 18 February 2019.
  • He was announced as TIG group spokesperson, later styled as Change UK, but left Change UK to sit as an independent MP in June 2019 following "disappointing" results in the 2019 European Elections, in which the party had "failed to get a single MEP elected".
  • One week later, Umunna joined the Liberal Democrats and was appointed the Liberal Democrats' Treasury and Business Spokesman by Liberal Democrat Leader Sir Vince Cable.
  • Umunna said that he had "massively underestimated just how difficult" it was to set up a new party, and that under Britain's first past the post voting system, "there isn't room for more than one centre ground" political party.In September 2019, in his first major speech to the Liberal Democrat Federal Conference, Umunna argued that Britain is unable to exert its moral authority against authoritarian leaders in the world, at a time that Prime Minister Boris Johnson continues to threaten to break the law over Brexit.
  • Two months later, Umunna was unsuccessful in being re-elected as an MP and left the House of Commons.

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