Keir Starmer ‘will act on findings of Tulip Siddiq investigation regardless of outcome’

Tulip Siddiq. The independent adviser on ministerial standards is investigating allegations about properties linked to Siddiq’s family and her aunt’s political movement in Bangladesh. Photograph: Victoria Jones/PA

Keir Starmer will act on the findings of an independent investigation into Tulip Siddiq’s conduct regardless of the outcome, a cabinet minister has said, as Kemi Badenoch called for her to be sacked.

Badenoch, the Conservative leader, accused the prime minister of appointing “his personal friend as anti-corruption minister and she is accused herself of corruption”, after the Bangladesh government raised serious concerns about Siddiq’s links to the regime of Sheikh Hasina, her aunt.