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Chuka is not an MP. He is a concept. A lifestyle choice. Most new MPs enter Parliament determined to make their name. When Chuka first strode through Westminster Hall he had already been identified as “One of Ten People Who Could Change The World”. One colleague ungraciously remarked that he’d do better to concentrate on changing Streatham.  

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Chuka set himself the modest goal of constructing a new global economic programme. Though a new MP for only eight weeks, he published an “alternative budget” in an open letter to George Osborne, secured election to the prestigious treasury select committee and was appointed Ed Miliband’s PPS. He certainly attracted attention; not all of it flattering. “He’s always there, floating around as part of Ed’s entourage”, said one hack, “God knows what he does, but I suppose he does it elegantly”.