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Politics, Law & Religion

Chuka Umunna Bradshaw, Liz Kendall and Stella Creasy, who share his
MP for Streatham; Chair, Vote Leave Watch post-Brexit vision.
Chuka, who has been MP for the south London
constituency since 2010, has said he wouldn’t rule out
Chuka Umunna returned to work from paternity leave on standing for leader again “if a vacancy came up”. From
the day Theresa May called the General Election. It was 2011 to 2015, he was Shadow Business Secretary, but
straight back into the fray for the Streatham MP, resigned his position in 2015 to return to the backbenches.
who polled a massive 38,000 votes to be re-elected to his Chuka is currently Chair of Vote Leave Watch, set up to
seat. He took a 68 per cent share, a swing to Labour of 15.5 “hold the Vote Leave campaign to account”.
per cent. He is also Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group
Since then the former Labour leadership candidate – on Social Integration, and a member of the Home Affairs
who pulled out of the race that Jeremy Corbyn won in 2015 Committee. He is Chair of the ongoing independent inquiry
– has stayed in the rough and tumble. A vocal Remainer, into the Labour Party’s support among Britain’s Ethnic
he has revived calls for Britain to stay in the single market, Minorities and sits on the advisory board of the Centre for
joining forces with fellow Labour MPs including Ben Progressive Capitalism.

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