Tulip Siddiq has resigned as the UK’s treasury minister after being under the scanner for her close ties to ousted Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. The Labour MP has been accused of corruption
Documents recovered from Sheikh Hasina’s former residence reveal that one of Britain’s most distinguished barristers, Desmond Browne KC, provided legal guidance to the ex-Bangladeshi prime minister’s government as it sought to counter allegations
Labour has long known about MP Siddiq's links to an autocrat in Bangladesh, so why was she appointed a minister?
It comes after days of UK media reports around Siddiq's use of a north London flat given to her by her sister, Azmina, also a niece of Sheikh Hasina.
The matter came to light after The Sunday Times found a crumpled document in Sheikh Hasina's bedroom in her ransacked former residence in Dhaka which revealed that Browne agreed to meet the officials
Tulip Siddiq, the United Kingdom's anti-corruption minister and niece of deposed Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, has resigned from her government post. Siddiq's resignation comes amid growing calls for her to resign over alleged involvement in corruption investigations concerning her family.
Siddiq resigned as the Economic Secretary to the Treasury and City Minister amidst growing pressure over an anti-corruption investigation in Bangladesh
Not only in the July uprising, historically police forces have often resorted to armed violence as a means of suppressing dissent, with little regard for the scale of the human cost. A special committ
The corruption scandal around Labour minister Tulip Siddiq reveals much about the Party’s priorities and class interests, argues Kevin Crane The ousting, under extreme pressure, of an anti-corruption minister after she was herself accused of corruption was yet another serious headache for Keir Starmer.
Pakistan and Bangladesh have edged closer as politics in both countries ride on a general anti-India sentiment.
Tulip Siddiq resigned as Britain’s anti-corruption minister after Bangladesh’s anti-graft agency said she was being probed for – corruption.
One month after being elected as a new MP in 2015 Streeting met Sheikh Hasina at another UK Awami League event at the luxury Sheraton Grand London Park Lane hotel, where she presented him with a bouquet of flowers. Hasina was ousted last year after 15 ...