Labour minister Tulip Siddiq given 2 free cricket tickets from firm with links to Bangladeshi MP in her aunt’s party
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TULIP Siddiq was given freebie tickets to two top cricket matches by a company with links to a Bangladeshi MP in her aunt’s party. Teatulia UK gave the Labour MP seats and lunch for World Cup games featuring Bangladesh worth £717 in 2019. And the Sun on Sunday can reveal the firm is linked to Kazi Nabil Ahmed of the Awami League headed by Ms Siddiq’s aunt — ousted bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina.
![[Headshot of Tulip Siddiq MP.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/file-photo-dated-13-05-961943802_4cb191.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
The MPs’ register of interests fails to say which matches Ms Siddiq attended. But Bangladesh played New Zealand at the Oval on June 5 and faced Pakistan at Lord’s on July 5. Both featured Bangladesh wicket keeper and batter Mushfiqur Rahim. The UK-based tea company had a shop in Covent Garden which closed after the pandemic before the company was dissolved in 2023.
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Mr Nabil Ahmed is a director of Gemcon Group – a conglomerate which owns the Kazi & Kazi Tea Estate which sells the Teatulia branded tea. Details of the company funding emerged last year in a vicious court battle between the three investors and Teatulia’s UK-based director.
The latest revelation comes as Ms Siddiq is under fierce pressure over connections to her aunt’s party. It was recently revealed Ms Siddiq was given a £700,000 London flat by a supporter of the Awami League and her sister received a £650,000 property from one of her aunt’s advisers.
Matt Vickers, Shadow Home Office Minister, said: “Time is running out for Tulip Siddiq to come clean. “The ever growing reports of her allegedly dodgy links, and the financial benefits and gifts these have brought, are deeply concerning, and yet Keir Starmer and Tulip Siddiq still refuse to provide any real answers.
