Evening Standard: Chuka best known for ‘being Black’

Despite a commanding performance at the Treasure Select Committee this week and a meteoric rise to become an aid to the new Labour leader Chuka’s talents aren’t considered relevant in this astonishing comment by the Evening Standard columnist Stephen Robinson.

“Chuka Umunna is best known around Westminster for being black, the one subject which this loquacious MP is rather reluctant to discuss. It is not that he is awkward about his mixed Nigerian/Anglo-Irish ancestry; more that he finds people make boring assumptions about him based only on his skin colour.”

Oh really? Would any other rising MP be subjected to such an incredible comment? Imagine if it had been said that a young Tony Blair is best known around Westminster for being white? ‘Nuff said.

Leon Green

(hat tip to @BorisWatch)