Chuka Umunna, a member of the British Parliament representing Streatham, South London, and the Shadow Business Secretary has been accused of hypocrisy by some members of the Conservative party after it emerged he received a £20,000 gift from an emeritus gambling executive at the same time as campaigning against the proliferation of betting shops in his constituency.

Chuka Umunna was born in the UK in 1978. His father Bennett Umunna, an Ibo man, died in a road accident in Nigeria in 1992. His Irish mother, Patricia, is a solicitor and the daughter of a High Court Judge, Sir Helenus Milmo, who was part of the team that prosecuted German Nazi officers at the end of World War II.

Mr Umunna, who is also a Solicitor, is widely regarded as a future Labour leader and has been dubbed ‘the British Obama‘, accepted the donation from Neil Goulden, the chairman emeritus of the Gala Coral Group, which owns more than 1,700 bookmakers.

According to the Independent, the shadow Business Secretary was accused of hypocrisy by the Tories for accepting the money. They pointed out he recently ran a campaign in his south London seat of Streatham in which he promised “new powers to control the number of betting shops”.

Mr Goulden spent 10 years as managing director, chief executive and chairman of Gala Coral and still acts as a consultant to the group.

Mr Umunna registered the gift last month and said he would use it to support his office and contribute towards staff costs.

A spokesman said: “This donation was made by an individual Labour Party supporter in a personal capacity and was accepted in accordance with the rules and properly declared.”

Mr Umunna, who is a close ally of Ed Miliband, has faced a series of controversies in recent months which supporters blame Conservative headquarters for generating.

They include the disclosure that in 2006 he protested that some London nightspots “seem to be full of trash and C-list wannabes”. Days later his office was accused of adding comparisons with Barack Obama to his Wikipedia entry.



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Question is does he regard himself as ''Nigerian British MP?

By all means, this man is not Nigerian!

Its in awa blood.

He is a Nigerian precisely from Anambra State. It is on record that Anambra has the largest number of human capital in Nigeria.

Igbo man,always dey prove,anywhere u go,

one.east:
He is a Nigerian precisely from Anambra State. It is on record that Anambra has the largest number of human capital in Nigeria.

So why is he not in the Anambra assembly or the Nigerian senate/house of rep?