Chuka Umunna steps out for Labour Party leadership

by Benson Agoha | Politics

Chuka Umuna has declared his intention to seek the Leadership Role of the Labour Party. He is the third to announce his intention.

Chuka Umunna and Alice Sullivan step out at the weekend.
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Umunna said he hoped to help fight for a fairer, more equal society - the reason we joined the Labour party in the first place.

Before the dissolution of Parliament in the run up to the general elections, Chuka Harrison Umuna was the MP for Streatham - a constituency he helped grow by 10,000 as latest labour statistics showed after the elections.

He is 36 years, privately educated at St Dunstan's College, then going ahead to study Law at Manchester. Umunna became a City Employment Lawyer and has been described as `deft' at handling interviews by SkyNews.

Son of a Nigerian immigrant who arrived at Liverpool docks penniless in the 1960s, built up an import-export business, married solicitor daughter of High Court judge, who was a prosecutor in Nuremburg trials.

The family settled in Streatham. Father returned to Nigeria to pursue political career on an anti-corruption ticket but died in road accident in 1992.

Chuka Umunna is still single but he showed up for a Labour Party meeting with Alice Sullivan, a 30-year-old employment lawyer, with whom he is seen weekend holding hands. He says the relationship is at its early stages.

by Benson Agoha (with contributions from Sky News).