Keir Starmer ‘will act on findings of Tulip Siddiq investigation regardless of outcome’
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Minister hits back after Tories call for PM to sack anti-corruption minister at centre of Bangladesh property row. 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.
The science secretary, Peter Kyle, rejected claims that Siddiq should resign while the independent adviser on ministerial standards, Sir Laurie Magnus, investigates allegations about properties linked to Siddiq’s family and her aunt’s political movement in Bangladesh.
Siddiq, the economic secretary to the Treasury, who is responsible for policy on the City and tackling corruption, referred herself to Magnus last Monday, asking for an investigation to be launched, and said she had done nothing wrong. On the same day, the prime minister said Siddiq had “acted entirely properly” and that he had “confidence with her”.
However, the Sunday Times published remarks from Bangladesh’s new leader, Muhammad Yunus, who said Siddiq should apologise after reports she had lived in London properties with links to her aunt, who was deposed as prime minister of Bangladesh last year and is at the centre of a corruption investigation.
