Foreign Office urged Richard Ratcliffe not to make ‘song and dance’, says MP

Tulip Siddiq said Richard Ratcliffe’s approach had been vindicated. Photograph: James Manning/PA

Campaigners pushing for the release of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe were told by the Foreign Office not to make a “song and dance” about her plight, according to an MP.

Labour MP Tulip Siddiq, whose Hampstead and Kilburn constituency was where Zaghari-Ratcliffe lived before she was detained in Iran, said the decision by Nazanin’s husband, Richard Ratcliffe, to be “so public and vocal” had been the right strategy.