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Chuka Umunna - Labour's Parliamentary Candidate - Working Hard for Streatham

Chuka’s priorities

“My priorities for our area are:

✓ Cracking down on crime, particularly anti-social behaviour, prostitution, burglary and street robbery.

✓ Continued investment in primary, secondary and further education and ensuring that the supply of school places meets demand.

✓ Increased funding for the provision of activities for our youth as well as real efforts to engage with them through our communities.

✓ Regeneration of Streatham High Road and a commitment to growing our local economy and, in particular, the small and medium enterprises that sustain it.

✓ Improved public transport links to the area and championing Streatham’s importance in a
rapidly-changing city.

✓ Ensuring that everyone has access to high quality, affordable, decent housing.

✓ Promoting environmentally sustainable living in the area and reducing the litter and pollution on our streets.”

Chuka’s Pledges


If local people give Chuka the privilege of serving them as MP, he has pledged:

Full transparency: Chuka would publish his full salary and allowances online and subscribe to high standards of integrity, accountability and prudence with public money.

You will come first: Currently Chuka practices as an employment law solicitor. If elected he will immediately give this up and work full time as Streatham’s MP.

Establish a Constituency Office: Located at the heart of the constituency for those seeking help or wishing to arrange to meet with their MP.

Hold regular surgeries: Chuka has helped Keith Hill MP deal with residents problems at his surgeries for half a decade and if elected would hold surgeries with the same frequency at Streatham, Tulse Hill and Clapham Park, adding a new surgery location in the Brixton area.

Regular People’s Question Times: Chuka would hold public meetings giving constituents the opportunity to hold their MP to account and raise issues.

Being part of a new political generation, Chuka would prioritise changing the way we do politics by pushing for a more proportional voting system, an elected House of Lords and a mechanism for recalling MPs.