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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Matthew Weaver and Hannah Ellis-Petersen

Treasury minister says he would welcome Tulip Siddiq’s return

Tulip Siddiq
Keir Starmer said after Tulip Siddiq resigned as City minister that the door was open for her to return to government in the future. Photograph: PjrNews/Alamy

The chief secretary to the Treasury, Darren Jones, has said he would be “very happy” if Tulip Siddiq returned as a minister, despite criticisms of her by the government’s adviser on ministerial standards over her family ties to the ousted regime in Bangladesh.

On Tuesday, Siddiq resigned as minister for the City and anti-corruption after accepting that allegations of corruption linked to her aunt Sheikh Hasina, the deposed prime minister of Bangladesh, had become a distraction.

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