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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
David Hughes

Treasury minister Siddiq quits after ethics investigation

Tulip Siddiq MP talks to the media after attending a meeting with then prime minister Boris Johnson alongside Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, her husband Richard Ratcliffe and daughter Gabriella, at 10 Downing Street (Victoria Jones/PA) - (PA Archive)

Tulip Siddiq quit as a Treasury minister after the ministerial standards watchdog said it was “regrettable” she was “not more alert” to the reputational risk caused by her links to her aunt’s political movement in Bangladesh.

Ms Siddiq’s aunt is the former Bangladeshi prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who fled into exile after being deposed last year and is facing an investigation by an anti-corruption commission in Bangladesh, with the Labour MP reportedly named as part of the case.

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