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tbc

"I'm not a careerist," says politician who switches parties twice in year to whichever one is most likely to advance his career.

Umunna’s defection raised eyebrows among some of his Change UK colleagues, who claimed he was the author of a leaked party strategy document urging an adversarial approach to the Lib Dems.

Labour got c38,000 votes in Streatham in 2017, compared to the Lib Dems' c3,600.

A by-election would be an excellent way to show you are a committed representative, surely your constituents love you?

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Oliver Schick in reply to @tbc

The best thing is that what he actually said, which I assume is being reported faithfully in the Guardian, was:

And I’m not sure what more I could do to prove that I’m not, not a careerist.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jun/13/chuka-umunna-joins-liberal-democrats-after-quitting-change-uk

It's undoubtedly an unintentional double negative, but ...

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