Ummuna the next leader of the Labour party.

Interested? The New Statesman's Martin Bright certainly is as he writes about the Labour party's prospective parliamentary candidate for Streatham.

Aged 30,Chuka Ummuna,attended the After New Labour event which took place in London on Sunday.

Bright describes him as

an impressive lawyer who is already being talked up as Labour's Barack Obama and the party's next leader but one.

and

a bold young politician with an easy public presence. If he wins the Streatham seat he will be fast-tracked into what is still likely to be the shadow cabinet. He has none of the cautiousness that characterises the fortysomething generation that now dominates (numerically at least) the Brown government. He is no Obama yet. But he is prepared to depart from the current government line in a way that would simply not have been acceptable for a candidate in the buttoned-up Tony Blair era. He believes, for example, that there should be a higher top rate of tax for those earning more than £100,000 a year, and believes that the institution of Prime Minister's Questions should be abolished or reformed.

One for the future and one to watch