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Tulip Siddiq: Anti-corruption minister under investigation has 'full support of government', says cabinet secretary

Tulip Siddiq was revealed to have lived in a flat linked to political allies of her aunt, Sheikh Hasina

Evening Standard · Jan 13, 2025

Flyer for Labour minister in corruption probe ‘found in palace of deposed Bangladesh leader’

Cabinet Office minister Pat McFadden insisted he has full confidence in Tulip Siddiq - and she denies any wrong doing

The Independent UK · Jan 13, 2025

McFadden insists he has full confidence in under-pressure minister Siddiq

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Pat McFadden said Tulip Siddiq had ‘done the right thing’ by asking the ethics tsar to investigate her.

The Independent UK · Jan 13, 2025

Badenoch calls on PM to sack Treasury minister over property allegations

Media reports have raised questions about a number of properties connected to Labour MP Tulip Siddiq and her family.

Evening Standard · Jan 11, 2025

Tulip Siddiq: Her despotic aunt, controversial properties and serious questions over her future in government

We’ve all been there — a much-loved (if rather overbearing) relative is in the neighbourhood and you just have to catch up. That, in her telling, explains Tulip Siddiq’s presence in Moscow in 2013.

Evening Standard · Jan 10, 2025

There are no adults in the room: there’s barely a room. This is politics at warp speed, and we know who’s benefiting

Fiscal crisis, corruption claims, shenanigans and legal threats. This feels like the week old-style politics sat on a grenade, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

The Guardian - UK · Jan 10, 2025

Ties between Labour MP Tulip Siddiq and deposed Bangladeshi regime under spotlight

City minister under pressure to explain why she benefited from property paid for by people linked to regime of aunt Sheikh Hasina

The Guardian - UK · Jan 9, 2025

Starmer says Mohamed Al Fayed sex abuse claims ‘never crossed’ his desk as DPP

The Prime Minister was asked why he ‘declined to instigate a prosecution for rape’ against the former owner of luxury department store Harrods.

The Independent UK · Jan 8, 2025

OPINION - Where has it all gone so wrong for dreary Keir Starmer?

It’s Keir’s drear new year — a January which sees the Prime Minister on the back foot from attacks from a (clearly bored) Elon Musk, stirring up trouble over the UK’s record on ethnically-based sexual crime and dragging the government into arguments about how its institutions addressed Asian grooming gangs.…

Evening Standard · Jan 8, 2025

Bangladesh Orders Banks To Assist UK Minister Graft Probe

Bangladesh money laundering investigators have ordered the country's big banks to hand over details of transactions relating to British anti-corruption minister Tulip Siddiq in an ongoing graft probe, officers told AFP. Siddiq is the niece of former Bangladeshi premier Sheikh Hasina, who fled abroad last August after a student-led uprising…

International Business Times · Jan 8, 2025