Under-fire Tulip Siddiq should resign to save her career

City minister Tulip Siddiq has referred herself to the prime minister’s ethics tsar following controversies over properties linked to her aunt’s political movement in Bangladesh - (Victoria Jones/PA)

At first glance, it looks like an episode of TV’s Yes, Minister or The Thick of It: the government minister in charge of tackling financial corruption and the City of London is under investigation for... alleged corruption. But that is the position today of Tulip Siddiq, who remains the economic secretary to the Treasury.

Ms Siddiq’s aunt, Sheikh Hasina, was an authoritarian prime minister of Bangladesh who was deposed last August after a student-led uprising. Her Awami League party is accused of laundering billions of pounds out of the country, including by buying properties in London.