Chuka Harrison Umunna (born October 17, 1978) is a British Labor Party politician who has been a Member of Parliament (MP) for Streatham since 2010 and is a Shadow Business Secretary from 2011 to 2015.
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Family
Umunna was born in London, England. His father, Bennett, of the Nigerian Igbo ethnic group, died in an accident on the Nigerian highway in 1992. Umunna's mother, Patricia Milmo, a lawyer, is an English-Irish background. Maternal maternal Umunna is Joan Frances (Morley) and Sir Helenus Milmo QC, a prosecutor in Nuremberg court. He married Alice Sullivan, a lawyer for work. The couple has one child, born in 2017.
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Education
Umunna was educated at Hitherfield Elementary School in Streatham, South London, and Christ Church Elementary School at Brixton Hill. He said his parents felt that the local state school had "given up on him" and as a result had transferred him to independent high school boys St Dunstan's College, in Catford in south east London, where he played cello. During this period he also became a choir at Southwark Cathedral. He was awarded top second class LLB in English and French Law from the University of Manchester; after graduating he studied for a semester at the University of Burgundy in Dijon, before studying for an MA in Nottingham Trent.
He has said that his political and moral values ​​stem from Christianity, but that he is "not very religious".
Legal career
After the university, in 2002, he began work as a lawyer for the London company Herbert Smith. In 2006 he joined Rochman Landau (now Ashfords LLP), specializing in labor law. From 2006 onwards Umunna began writing and commenting on the Labor Party, as well as broader social and economic issues, usually in his capacity as a member of the Management Committee of the Labor-sided Compass group pressure. He also writes articles for the Financial Times , Tribune , The Voice , The Guardian and New Statesman , and began to appear on radio and television programs as commentators. He founded and edited an online political magazine, Multicultural Politics . In 2007, he campaigned for Jon Cruddas's failed attempt to become vice-chairman of the Labor Party.
Political career
Member of Parliament
In March 2008, Umunna was adopted as a candidate for Labor Party Parliament candidate for Streatham. In the 2010 election he was elected MP for Streatham with 3,259 majority; he gave his first address on June 2, 2010. He paid special attention to the economic policies and reforms of the City.
Umunna is associated with Israel's Friends of Friends; along with Liam Byrne, he made an official visit to Israel in October 2012 as part of the LFI UK-Israel Economic Dialogue group.
Umunna increased its majority to 13,934 in the 2015 General Election, with 53% of the vote in its constituency.
Umunna describes herself as "One Working Nation" and has written an article promoting the trend of "Labor Blue". He also described himself as a "modern European social democrat".
Umunna argues that the Coalition Government led by the Conservatives (2010-2015) should revise the fiscal consolidation program, take a tougher stance with the UK banking industry and take action to change the credit rating agency market. Umunna is one of 73 Labor MPs to nominate Ed Miliband in the 2010 Labor leadership election to replace Gordon Brown as party leader.
Financial Options Committee
In June 2010, he was elected to the Finance Election Committee. In January 2011, Umunna questioned Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond in connection with alleged tax evasion by the bank in which he revealed that the bank is using more than 300 subsidiaries in offshore jurisdictions. In response to a question from Umunna, Diamond admitted in February 2011 that Barclays had paid Ã, Â £ 113m in UK corporate taxes in 2009, despite earning Ã, Â £ 11.6bn in earnings. He held this position until his appointment became Minister of Shadow for Small Businesses and Enterprises.
Shadow Cabinet
In October 2010, after Miliband was elected party leader, Umunna was appointed to serve as Secretary of the Private Parliament and, in May 2011, he was appointed to the position of Minister of Shadow for Small Business and Enterprise until promotion to the Shadow Cabinet.
Umunna was promoted as a Shadow Business Secretary on October 7, 2011, replacing John Denham, who announced his retirement from front-bench politics. After his appointment, Umunna reaffirmed Labor's commitment to introduce postgraduate taxes in lieu of university tuition fees. In January 2012, Umunna joined Ed Miliband and Shadow Chief Secretary to Treasury Rachel Reeves to summon PM David Cameron to block a £ 1.6m bonus for Stephen Hester, chief executive of the publicly owned Royal Bank of Scotland Group. During 2013, Umunna led the claim that the Government's assessment of the Royal Mail during its privacy has effectively "slashed" taxpayers, a view backed by a significant rise in stock prices after the sale and subsequent bankers' call to parliamentary inquiry.
In early April 2013, the Umunna law firm was associated with a favorable update made on its Wikipedia page in 2007, which included references to him that culminated in "Barack Obama UK". In the same month, Umunna was criticized for comments she made in her mid-20s on ASmallWorld's exclusive social network on West End of London. Conservative MP Chris Heaton-Harris said the 2006 comments, describing people visiting nightclubs in the West End as "junk" and "c-list lists", indicating "lack of respect for the public"; Umunna states that the comment is meant to be "light in tone and context" but appreciates that "the choice of words used is not appropriate" and apologizes for any offense.
Umunna is accused of being hypocritical for receiving a £ 20,000 prize from a gambling executive despite campaigning against the spread of betting shops in his electoral district and promising new forces to limit them.
In early May 2014, Umunna voiced concerns in Parliament and the public over the proposed takeover of AstraZeneca, by the American pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, on the grounds of ensuring British jobs and interests. Despite assurances from Pfizer, Umunna then publicly denounced the proposed takeover which states that Pfizer's warrant "is not worth the paper written on them". The takeover bid eventually falls in late May 2014 after the AstraZeneca board declined Pfizer's final bid.
In May 2014, Umunna criticized fellow Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham's report into a method that might limit the sales and advertising of alcohol, unhealthy food, and tobacco. He was quoted as saying that the actions described in the report would appear to be "anti-business and interventionist".
Ummuna has argued for the British federal state on several occasions, and says that progressives should not ignore George Osborne's notion of "Northern Powerhouse", arguing that the larger devolution, the federalization of the British Labor Party into each Labor Party that represents every the British component states, greater political autonomy for Britain in particular, more regional power and "federalization of wholescale" needed to advance the Labor Party.
Lead selection and withdrawal
After the Labor Party's defeat in the 2015 general election and the resignation of leader Ed Miliband, Umunna was identified as one of the potential candidates to take over as party leader. He called on the Labor Party to target the Conservatives and "aspirational middle-class voters", saying that parties should "be on the side of those who perform well." On May 12, he announced his candidacy for the Labor leadership election. Three days later, he resigned from the contest, stating that he was "uncomfortable" with "the extra level of supervision that came with being a leadership candidate". On May 26, he announced his support to Liz Kendall, who was unsuccessful in his bid for Labor's leadership.
Back to backbenches
In September 2015, after the election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labor Party leader, Umunna announced his resignation from the Shadow Cabinet and returned to the backbenches, citing differences over the Brexit referendum and the issue of collective ministerial responsibility.
Umunna is supported "Permanent" in the referendum of Brexit. Constituency voted with the highest proportion of fixed votes, with 79.5%. After the victory for the Leave campaign, Umunna proposed an amendment to the bill to trigger Article 50 calling on the government to investigate a £ 350 million a week expenditure on the NHS, which was defeated by the government. He then chose an unmodified bill to leave the EU, writing with Wes Streeting that "as democrats we must abide by national results".
After being re-elected in the 2017 General Election, Chuka Umunna proposed a rebel amendment to the Queen's Speech calling on the government to "put aside the withdrawal from the EU without agreement" and "set a proposal to remain within the Customs and Sole Markets". The three frontbenches of the Labor Party were dismissed for supporting a losing amendment, which the Labor leaders said was contrary to their manifesto commitment to end freedom of movement.
On April 15, 2018 Umunna attended the People's Vote launch event, a campaign group calling for a public vote on a final Brexit deal between Britain and the European Union.
References
External links
- Official website
- Profile in the British Parliament
- Contributions in Parliament at Hansard 2010-present
- Voice recording in Public Whip
- Record in Parliament at TheyWorkForYou
- Profile at Westminster Parliamentary Record
- Articles written in Journalist
- Archive of articles on The Guardian
- Chuka Umunna - Vote Black profile operation
- Streatham Labor
- The Multicultural Politic (TMP) Online
- The emergence of MP Chuka Umunna mapped by Ethos Journal
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