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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]],<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/who-can-lead-labour-chuka-umunna-can-6555803.html|newspaper=[[London Evening Standard]].|title=Who can lead Labour? Chuka Umunna can|date=14 January 2011|access-date=19 May 2014|location=London}}</ref> in [[Catford]] in south-east London, where he played the cello.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/b2e9e3a6-ef46-11e2-bb27-00144feabdc0.html|newspaper=The Financial Times (FT Magazine)|title=Chuka Umunna: Profile|date=19 July 2013|access-date=19 May 2014|location=London}}</ref> During this period he was also a [[chorister]] at [[Southwark Cathedral]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.sky.com/story/991633/chuka-umunna-coy-about-leadership-ambitions |title=Chuka Umunna Coy About Leadership Ambitions |publisher=Sky News |date=1 October 2012}}</ref> As a teenager, he was a member of the [[Liberal Democrats (UK)|Liberal Democrats]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/political-parties/liberal-democrats/news/106502/excl-chuka-umunna-i-was-teenage-member |title=EXCL Chuka Umunna: I was a teenage member of the Liberal Democrats |last=Schofield |first=Kevin |website=PoliticsHome |access-date=15 September 2019 |date=13 September 2019}}</ref> He was awarded an upper second class [[Bachelor of Laws]] 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 a [[Master of Arts]] at [[Nottingham Trent University]]'s law school.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.nottinghampost.com/nottingham-trent-alumnus-chuka-umunna-announces/story-26488487-detail/story.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150715215108/http://www.nottinghampost.com/nottingham-trent-alumnus-chuka-umunna-announces/story-26488487-detail/story.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=15 July 2015 |title=Nottingham Trent alumnus Chuka Umunna announces he will run for Labour leadership |first=Ellie|last=Cullen |work=Nottingham Post |date=12 May 2015 |access-date=27 March 2017}}</ref>
After university, in 2005, Umunna began work as a solicitor for the [[City of London]] firm [[Herbert Smith]]. In 2006 he joined Rochman Landau (now Ashfords LLP), specialising in [[employment law]] and advising companies on contentious transactional and advisory matters.<ref name=edelman-20200708/> From 2006, he began to write and provide commentary on the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]], as well as broader social and economic issues, usually in his capacity as a member of the Management Committee of the Labour-aligned [[Compass (think tank)|Compass]] pressure group. He also wrote articles for the ''[[Financial Times]]'', ''[[Tribune (magazine)|Tribune]]'', ''[[The Voice (British newspaper)|The Voice]]'', ''[[The Guardian]]'' and the ''[[New Statesman]]'', and began to appear on various radio and television programmes as a commentator.<ref>{{cite web |last=Umunna |first=Chuka |url= http://www.newstatesman.com/200708300012 |title=The duty to inspire |work= New Statesman |date= 30 August 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Umunna |first=Chuka |url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/a832e19a-4185-11db-b4ab-0000779e2340.html |title=Ask the expert: Diversity in the City |newspaper=Financial Times |date=11 September 2006}}</ref> He founded and edited the online political magazine, ''The Multicultural Politic''.<ref name="TMP">{{cite web|url=http://www.tmponline.org/2007/04/15/tmp-is-born/|title=TMP is born|last=Umunna|first=Chuka|date=15 April 2007|work=The Multicultural Politic|access-date=20 July 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160808213613/http://www.tmponline.org/2007/04/15/tmp-is-born/|archive-date=8 August 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2007, he campaigned in support of [[Jon Cruddas]]' unsuccessful bid to become Labour [[2007 Labour Party
== Political career ==
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