Top 60 Chuka Umunna Quotes

One way to promote shareholder engagement and activism is through greater accountability and transparency.

We are a great country with huge potential.

I have a confession to make: I am a Labour parliamentary candidate but like and get on with some of the Conservative persuasion.

My father was a rags-to-riches businessman who came over in the Sixties with no money. On my mother’s side, I am the grandson of a High Court judge and celebrated intelligence officer, so it’s quite an unusual combination.

Jeremy Corbyn is a Brexiteer. This guy has always wanted us to leave the E.U.

Undoubtedly Obama’s multi-ethnic heritage is part of his appeal. There is something in his background that we can all relate to and grab hold of.

Getting from A to B can be crucial for small-business owners, self-employed people and freelancers too, who often rely on trains and buses to get around, conduct business and meet clients.

I think the first person to call me ‘Britain’s Obama’ was Martin Bright at the New Statesman. Harriet Harman made the comparison once at a conference; it was very flattering but it made me cringe slightly.

We want to see more sources of alternative finance, from innovations in factoring such as MarketInvoice or in peer-to-peer lending such as Funding Circle which Labour local authorities are now using to support and invest in local businesses.

My family have shaped my politics more than anything else.

The reason I have been so outspoken on antisemitism is that racism is racism – and my family have been victims of it.

I get quite bemused by the comments made about what I wear because, for African people, how you dress is very important.

Ukip has policies including cutting taxes for the wealthy and putting them up for everyone else, charging people to see their GP, or taking away maternity rights.

Being outside the customs union would mean masses of new red tape, a desperate scramble for trade agreements and the re-emergence of a border in Ireland.

Green growth is one vehicle through which technology, globalisation and environmental challenges can be turned from obstacles to solutions for problems related to growth, jobs and competitiveness.

With Tory privatisations in the past we’ve seen how service users can end up losing out and getting a raw deal.

As the world has changed through globalisation and technology, it has left many feeling left behind.

Though I am probably guilty of indulging in excessive tribalism myself at times, I try to put partisanship to one side where appropriate.

It was a Labour prime minister who appointed the first black male and female cabinet ministers.

There is a danger in believing your own hype.

People may not know what tier of government has competence over which policy area but they do draw a distinction between the local and the national.

We need to see many more people starting businesses and becoming their own boss, but the squeezed middle exists as much within this group as in the population at large as rising costs are hitting small businesses – who after all are consumers too.

Back in the 1980s parts of our country were devastated by de-industrialisation. This wave of globalisation and the first fruits of technological innovation destroyed industrial jobs or exported them to low-wage economies. The loss of work had a devastating impact.

We are determined to work in partnership with business not only towards our goal of full employment, but for more secure jobs for working people so they can get on and meet their aspirations.

My father, when he arrived in this country found it difficult.

To be concerned about immigration and the economy is not racist, but I do think there is a virus of racism that runs through Ukip.

I don’t like being pigeon-holed.

If truth be told, certainly culturally, I never felt totally comfortable in the Labour party, because I’ve never really been a massively tribal politician.

Labour has an impressive record of delivery for black Britain.

Leaving Labour was one of the most difficult things I’ve ever had to do and it was not a cause of jubilation or happiness. I did it with great sadness, but you have to put the country first.

The argument in Labour around full membership of the single market is about whether it can be squared with delivering the desire of many of our voters to gain greater control over immigration. This is a proper concern – Labour must stand for those who voted leave every bit as much as we represent those who voted remain.

A prerequisite to the inclusive prosperity that will increase equality and reduce poverty is growth. This requires an innovative economy in which productive businesses, the state and citizens work together to create wealth and ensure that globalisation works for many more people.

We are pro-West, and we are not anti-liberal.

In an age of globalisation, investment and good jobs increasingly flow to cities and regions with distinctive strengths and specialisms. These cannot be built up from Whitehall. They require local expertise, knowledge and dedication.

Our differences needn’t divide us, but unity takes work.

I have no truck with this notion that immigrants are to blame for all of the country’s problems.

In 2016, we all thought Remain would hopefully win.

Part of the reason young people are getting involved with gangs, leading to the use of guns and knives, is not the lack of stop and search but the individualistic, consumerist society we live in.

Look, I like my music, and I don’t have a conventional background for a politician, but I’m pretty conventional in many senses.

Whether it is clamping down on tax avoidance by multinationals, setting ambitious targets for tackling climate change, or reforming the posted workers’ directive to better protect migrant workers, European countries are working together to get things done.

Despite Labour’s achievements in government, we were too often seen as champions for global capital markets, which worked for bankers but did not seem to be delivering for the rest of Britain.

Some people welcome the flexibility of a zero-hours contract. But their growth is symptomatic of a wider issue – increasing job insecurity and falling living standards in David Cameron’s Britain.

My father had hammered into me, you want to look after your family, you want a nice house, and you want to be able to enjoy yourself, and you have to work very hard for those things. Don’t think the world is going to come to you.

I’ve had a lot of good media and the Obama comparison has definitely been part of the reason for some of that.

I had to grow up very quickly.

Future prosperity will be built on private sector growth.

We have a commitment to making sure that the U.K. remains a member of the European Union.

I wasn’t born into one of the two main parties, but both my parents had a strong sense of social justice.

Screaming ‘you’re wrong’ at the electorate is not a good strategy for a party seeking to win back its trust.

To be clear, aiming to reduce the national debt in the long term and running small surpluses when the economy is operating close to full capacity is what I mean when I talk about seeking to ‘balance the books’ – a sensible approach.

Why not let the main parties wither? Because I know of no better vehicle than the political party to enable those with common values to come together and reach a position on issues that can then be offered up as a choice of programmes for voters.

Banks provide payment systems, core deposit and lending facilities that enable us to manage our day to day affairs.

We are all proud to be British. But we also feel more local and regional allegiances.

We have a really rich and diverse heritage in my family – but I sometimes felt it was a bit of a chain round my neck in the Labour party if truth be told.

This country needs nothing less than wholesale federalisation. The reasons are threefold: economic, democratic and cultural.

I have multiple identities, never mind ethnically but in other respects… and it’s even worse when they try to do it by reference to other people. This stupid term, ‘Blairite,’ that gets used in the Labour Party as a form of abuse, in spite of the fact this guy won three elections.

I wasn’t one of those people who had some grand plan to become Prime Minister. I’m a normal person. When I was being foolish in my twenties, when I was at university, I wasn’t thinking I was going to become an MP.

We do not just strive for a society in which every person has the opportunity to reach their full potential (all parties lay claim to that); we want to build a society in which whatever talents people have, they are rewarded with a comfortable standard of living when they apply them.

Having common European standards has not only boosted prosperity here and across the continent, it is undoubtedly the best way of managing the challenges posed by globalisation.

I honestly do feel like the luckiest man alive. I have a beautiful daughter, an amazing wife and not everyone has that. My close mates always laugh at me because I say I’m blessed, but I don’t know what I did to deserve it.