Meet Chuka Umunna, The Igbo Man Tipped To Be The Future Prime Minister Of United Kingdom

Umunna was born in London in 1978.[2] His father Bennett, who was a Nigerian of the Igbo ethnic group, died in a road accident in Nigeria in 1992. His Irish mother, Patricia, is a solicitor and the daughter of High Court Judge Sir Helenus Milmo. Umunna was educated at Hitherfield Primary School in Streatham, South London, at the voluntary aided Christ Church Primary School in Brixton Hill, and at the independent secondary school St Dunstan's College in Catford.

In March 2008, Umunna was adopted as the Labour Party's prospective parliamentary candidate for Streatham. At the 2010 general election, he was elected Member of Parliament for Streatham with a 3,259 majority; he gave his maiden speech on 2 June 2010. He took a particular interest in economic policy and reform of the City, and he was subsequently elected to serve on the Treasury Select Committee.

He dislikes being called Britain’s Obama. He downplays the shared features that prompt many to compare him with the first black president of the United States. Yet he vigorously pursues a career that he hopes could ultimately make him the first black prime minister of the United Kingdom. Chuka Umunna, the 33-year-old half-Nigerian half-British Shadow Business Secretary, is a rising star in British politics. Some of the country’s leading newspapers are already tipping him to be the next leader of the opposition Labour Party.