Chuka Umunna has every right to be "fiercely critical" about MPs who are "fundamentally dishonest" with their constituents about the effects of immigration, but strangely myopic when it comes to his own "economy with the truth" (Chuka Umunna: I never felt totally comfortable in the Labour party, 02/02/19). What has he been telling the voters in "his south London patch"? Did he tell them how "uncomfortable" he was with recent Labour manifestos, the ones pledging to increase taxes on wealthy individuals and corporations, and to end the callous austerity policies, to which some of his new colleagues in the Independent Group, gave their wholehearted support? Should he not have admitted to disagreeing with the return to state ownership of railways and utilities, and the rest of the more left-wing policies in the 2017 manifesto?
In fact, since 2010 Umunna has been getting himself elected on the back of the Labour party`s policies with which he fundamentally disagreed, A defection nine years ago would have been far more honest, principled and acceptable! When the Independent Group is confined in a few years to the dustbin of history, as it most surely will be, no doubt Mr Umunna will reappear in the party to which he is most closely suited, vying with the likes of Hammond, Hunt and Johnson for its leadership!
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