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Chuka Umunna if a vacancy came up. He is a member of the Home Affairs

MP for Streatham; Chair, Leave Watch Committee, as well as chair of the independent inquiry
into the Labour Party’s support among Britain’s ethnic
minorities.
A vocal advocate of staying in the European Union, Chuka Additionally, he chairs the All-Party Parliamentary
is currently Chair of Leave Watch, a group set up to “hold Group on Social Integration, which recently completed
the Vote Leave campaign to account”. During the ongoing its inquiry into the integration of immigrants, and he
Brexit debates, he has been joining forces with fellow has started work on an inquiry into inter-generational
Labour MPs Ben Bradshaw, Liz Kendall and Stella Creasy connection. He is also a Patron of the Black Cultural
to call for Britain to stay in the single market. Archives in Brixton.
Between 2011-2015, he was the Shadow Business Chuka has been MP for the south London constituency
Secretary. In 2015, he ran in the Labour leadership contest, since 2010.
but pulled out of the race later won by Jeremy Corbyn, He is a popular candidate in his area, polling nearly
after which he resigned to the backbenches. He says he 40,000 votes – a massive 68 per cent share – in the last
would consider running for the leadership position again General Election.

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