Chuka Umunna
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Chuka Umunna MP |
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Umunna in 2009
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| Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills | |
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In office 7 October 2011 – 13 September 2015 |
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| Leader |
Ed Miliband Jeremy Corbyn |
| Preceded by | John Denham |
| Succeeded by | Angela Eagle |
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Member of Parliament for Streatham |
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Assumed office 6 May 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Keith Hill |
| Majority | 13,934 (27.9%) |
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Chuka Harrison Umunna 17 October 1978 London, England, UK |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse(s) | Alice Sullivan (2016—) |
| Alma mater |
University of Manchester Nottingham Trent University |
| Religion | Christianity |
| Website | Official website |
Chuka Harrison Umunna (born 17 October 1978) is a British Labour politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Streatham since 2010 and was Shadow Business Secretary from 2011 to 2015.
Umunna was born in London, England. His father Bennett, of the Nigerian Igbo ethnic group, died in a road accident in Nigeria in 1992. Umunna's mother, Patricia Milmo, a solicitor, is of English-Irish background. Umunna's maternal grandparents were Joan Frances (Morley) and Sir Helenus Milmo QC, a prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials. He is married to Alice Sullivan, an employment lawyer.
Umunna was educated at Hitherfield Primary School in Streatham, South London, and the Christ Church Primary School in Brixton Hill. He says his parents felt that the local state school had "given up on him" and as a result had moved him to the boys' independent senior school St Dunstan's College, in Catford in southeast London, where he played the cello. During this period he was also a chorister at Southwark Cathedral.
He was awarded an upper second class LLB in English and French Law from the University of Manchester; after graduating he studied for one term at the University of Burgundy in Dijon, before studying for an MA at Nottingham Law School. He has said that his politics and moral values come from Christianity, but that he is "not majorly religious".
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