Profile of Chuka Umunna: An independent streak
Since Jeremy Corbyn’s rise to the leadership of the Labour Party, however, Umunna’s centrist, pro-EU principles have gone increasingly out of fashion
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Age:40
Appearance: tall, shaven-headed, immaculately dressed
Newsworthiness: the former rising star of Britain’s Labour Party has left to form a new anti-Brexit parliamentary group
When Chuka Umunna was Britain’s shadow business secretary, he became friendly with a relatively unknown French cabinet minister called Emmanuel Macron. The two men bonded over their mutual frustration with traditional party politics and a growing fear that liberal European values were under attack. At one point the ...
