Chuka Umunna Quotes

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Chuka Umunna

Profession : Politician

Birth : October 17, 1978

We will not try to out-Ukip Ukip. Labour is not going to offer false solutions, such as leaving Europe.

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A prerequisite to the inclusive prosperity that will increase equality and reduce poverty is growth. This requires an innovative economy in which productive businesses, the state and citizens work together to create wealth and ensure that globalisation works for many more people.

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I wasn't one of those people who had some grand plan to become Prime Minister. I'm a normal person. When I was being foolish in my twenties, when I was at university, I wasn't thinking I was going to become an MP.

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People may not know what tier of government has competence over which policy area but they do draw a distinction between the local and the national.

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I'm boring, man.

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I had to grow up very quickly.

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I worked in the Square Mile for three and half years at an international City law firm.

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I honestly do feel like the luckiest man alive. I have a beautiful daughter, an amazing wife and not everyone has that. My close mates always laugh at me because I say I'm blessed, but I don't know what I did to deserve it.

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Sometimes it requires national impetus to deliver real change.

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To be concerned about immigration and the economy is not racist, but I do think there is a virus of racism that runs through Ukip.

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I've had a lot of good media and the Obama comparison has definitely been part of the reason for some of that.

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I want to make sure that all GPs, not only in my constituency but across the U.K., help to raise awareness of the increased risk of prostate cancer in black men and have the knowledge to initiate these important conversations with the community.

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You cannot duck the difficult issues in the middle of an election campaign.

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More and more department stores are acting as the shop window for a range of retailers now, using space more efficiently to recreate the feel of the local market, creating new market opportunities for the small and the niche.

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Ukip has policies including cutting taxes for the wealthy and putting them up for everyone else, charging people to see their GP, or taking away maternity rights.

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Future prosperity will be built on private sector growth.

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Part of the reason young people are getting involved with gangs, leading to the use of guns and knives, is not the lack of stop and search but the individualistic, consumerist society we live in.

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I have multiple identities, never mind ethnically but in other respects... and it's even worse when they try to do it by reference to other people. This stupid term, 'Blairite,' that gets used in the Labour Party as a form of abuse, in spite of the fact this guy won three elections.

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This country needs nothing less than wholesale federalisation. The reasons are threefold: economic, democratic and cultural.

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I spent many hours slaving away, day and night, bleary eyed, on multi-million pound takeovers, mergers and acquisitions, and the rest. It could sound glamorous (especially when it involved overseas travel) but often it wasn't partly because, as a lawyer, you were not the one calling the shots.

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