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'''Chuka Harrison Umunna''' ({{IPAc-en|'|tʃ|ʊ|k|ə|_|ə|'|m|uː|n|ə}}; born 17 October 1978) is a smug twat and British former politician who served as [[Member of Parliament (UK)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) for [[Streatham (UK Parliament constituency)|Streatham]] from [[2010 United Kingdom general election|2010]] until [[2019 United Kingdom general election|2019]]. A former member of the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]], he was part of the [[Shadow Cabinet of Ed Miliband|Shadow Cabinet]] from 2011 to 2015. He left Labour in February 2019, when he resigned to form The Independent Group, later [[Change UK]], along with six other MPs. Later in 2019, he left Change UK and, after a short time as an [[Independent politician|independent]] MP, joined the [[Liberal Democrats (UK)|Liberal Democrats]]. In the 2019 general election, he was unsuccessful in being re-elected as an MP and did not return to the [[House of Commons]].
Born in [[Lambeth]] to a Nigerian father and English-Irish mother, Umunna was educated at [[St Dunstan's College]], a private school in [[Catford]], [[London Borough of Lewisham|Lewisham]]. He then studied law at the [[University of Manchester]] and [[Nottingham Trent University]]. A teenage member of the [[Liberal Democrats (UK)|Liberal Democrats]], he joined the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] in 1997 when the party was styling itself as "[[New Labour]]". He worked as a solicitor in the [[City of London]], first for [[Herbert Smith]] and then for Rochman Landau, while writing articles for the [[Compass (think tank)|Compass]] think tank.
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