Chuka Umunna Quotes

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Chuka Umunna

Profession : Politician

Birth : October 17, 1978

Screaming 'you're wrong' at the electorate is not a good strategy for a party seeking to win back its trust.

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The Labour perspective is often very preoccupied with either the super-rich or those who don't have work - but doesn't have nearly enough to say to those who do have work, on incomes that may not mean they get benefits or tax credits, but are not well off people.

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I would like to go back to the private sector at some point.

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The reason I have been so outspoken on antisemitism is that racism is racism - and my family have been victims of it.

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I have a confession to make: I am a Labour parliamentary candidate but like and get on with some of the Conservative persuasion.

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I have no truck with this notion that immigrants are to blame for all of the country's problems.

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If the tax loop holes that allow tax avoidance were shut down, it would go some way to sorting out our finances, would it not?

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In an age of globalisation, investment and good jobs increasingly flow to cities and regions with distinctive strengths and specialisms. These cannot be built up from Whitehall. They require local expertise, knowledge and dedication.

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We do not just strive for a society in which every person has the opportunity to reach their full potential (all parties lay claim to that); we want to build a society in which whatever talents people have, they are rewarded with a comfortable standard of living when they apply them.

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We are a great country with huge potential.

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I have quite a different background from a lot of people in the Labour party - I'm of mixed heritage.

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When you lose work, the meaning and purpose of life are taken away from you, and isolation can set in.

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My father was a black, working-class man who arrived here with no money in his pocket from Nigeria; my mum came from more of a middle-class background, whose father had prosecuted the Nazis at Nuremberg.

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Believe it or not, we all share the same values in the Labour party, but there will always be differences of opinion on policy - that is in the nature of the broad-church political parties we have under our flawed first-past-the-post electoral system.

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My father had hammered into me, you want to look after your family, you want a nice house, and you want to be able to enjoy yourself, and you have to work very hard for those things. Don't think the world is going to come to you.

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Putting in place the building blocks for the future of our economy is common sense.

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Shopping in the future can become an experience where conventional retailers can complement the success of online retailing. Government needs to work in partnership with the sector to help make this a reality.

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I've never bought the argument that people are apathetic about politics.

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Look, I like my music, and I don't have a conventional background for a politician, but I'm pretty conventional in many senses.

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