Chuka Umunna MP

Chuka is appearing on Any Questions? on BBC Radio 4 this evening at 8.00pm (repeated on Saturday at 1.10pm)

The show is being broadcast from Saffron Walden in Essex and presented by Eddie Mair. Also on the panel are Business Secretary Vince Cable, journalist and broadcaster Julia Hartley-Brewer and author Anthony Horowitz.

Below is Chuka’s video interview with the Guardian on trust in politics and representation.

To watch Chuka’s appearance on Question Time on BBC iPlayer, was was broadcast on Thursday evening, follow this link

Chuka will be appearing on Question Time this evening at 10.35pm on BBC One.

Also on the panel are: Edwina Currie, Chris Huhne MP, Kate Hopkins and Will Self.

Chuka appeared on BBC Radio 4′s weekly panel debate on Friday.

Also on the panel were: Margot James MP, Leader of UKIP Nigel Farage, and RMT general secretary Bob Crow.

To listen again to the broadcast, please follow this link.

Chuka is appearing on a special edition of Question Time for first time voters, which will be broadcast this evening on BBC Three between 8.00pm and 9.00pm

Alongside Chuka, the panel will include Miquita Oliver, Marcus Bridgstocke, Kwasi Kwarteng and Anna Arrowsmith, and will be chaired by Dermot O’Leary.

Chuka will be appearing on ITV1′s Late Debate this evening at 11:35pm this evening, discussing London’s economy.

The programme follows Britain’s first ever televised leaders’ debate, which will be aired on the channel at 8:30pm.

Yesterday, Chuka appeared on Sky News, being questioned by Kay Burley on the economy – one of the key battlegrounds over which the election will be fought.

This was only hours after the Prime Minister went to the Queen to dissolve Parliament and officially call the General Election, which will take place on Thursday May 6th.

Chuka is a signatory to this letter, along with former Mayor of London Ken Livingstone and others, which appears in today’s Guardian newspaper:

Despite the government saving the financial sector from meltdown, City reaction to the PBR has been to promote scare stories of a so-called mass exodus of “talent”, questionable accusations from leading accountancy firms of a huge black hole in the public finances and, worst of all, plans to engage in tax avoidance in relation to the new windfall levy on bonuses (City tells Darling: you’re driving us out of Britain, 10 December).

Let’s not forget that it was the bankers who wrecked the economy in the first place and that we face a budget deficit that they significantly helped create – not least in part by the banks bailout. Let’s not forget too that despite the bailout, before the PBR, banks planned bumper bonuses forecast to rise 50% to £6bn. It’s in this context we feel the government deserves support in imposing the windfall levy on bonuses. We further welcome government efforts in advocating a financial transactions tax. These measures are important in making the financial sector as a whole more socially responsible.

We’d also urge the government to take radical steps in diversifying the economy and end the country’s overreliance on financial services for jobs, growth and tax revenue. Further, we don’t believe that public sector workers should be forced to pay for the mistakes of bankers through a real-terms pay cut. On the wider issue of excessive pay – while a bonuses windfall tax is good for the short-term, for the long-term we’d call on the government to establish a high pay commission.

Chuka appeared on BBC Radio 4′s topical panel discussion show Any Questions? on Friday November 13th.

He joined writer A.N. Wilson, Director of the Institute of Ideas Claire Fox and Editor of ConservativeHome Tim Montgomerie.

Listen again to the programme here.