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, explained Tulip Siddiq’s presence in Moscow in 2013.
The trip to Russia, along with questions about various properties dotted around North London, left the Labour MP for Hampstead and Highgate waging an ultimately doomed battle to salvage her career in Sir Keir Starmer’s government, and raised concerned eyebrows in the constituency.