BRITISH-NIGERIAN, CHUKA UMUNNA, DECLARES TO BECOME LEADER OF THE LABOR PARTY

May 13, 2015 By other Leave a Comment

Chuka Umunna, MP

The shadow business secretary, Chuka Umunna, has confirmed he will be standing for the Labour leadership, saying he will have no truck with those who say the party faces 10 years out of office.

Umunna travelled to Swindon, where the party failed to win two key seats, to make his announcement on his Facebook page.

He said he had spoken to half of the Labour candidates who had been defeated in the party’s 80 key seats, as well a large number of parliamentarians and those he described as stakeholders.

He said: “I will be standing for the leadership of the party. I think we can and should be winning in seats like Swindon; north, south, west and east – we can absolutely win as a party.

“Some have in recent days now suggested it is a 10-year project to get the party back into power. I don’t think we should have any truck with that. I think Labour can do it in five years. I want to lead that effort as part of a really big Labour team getting Labour back into office, and building a fairer and more equal society. That is why we joined the Labour party in the first place.” (Continue reading)