Tulip Siddiq 'getting on with job', insists minister amid growing calls for her resignation
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Tulip Siddiq is "getting on with doing her job," a Government minister insisted on Tuesday amid growing calls for her resignation. Sir Keir Starmer is facing mounting pressure to sack the MP for Hampstead and Highgate amid an independent investigation into her conduct.
The anti-corruption minister has referred herself to the Prime Minister's ethics tsar after it was revealed she had lived in London homes linked to political allies of her aunt, Sheikh Hasina, who ruled Bangladesh through her Awami League party with an iron fist from 1996.
She has denied any wrongdoing. Asked how she could carry on doing her job while the investigation takes place, Security Minister Dan Jarvis told Times Radio: "There is now an independent process where he's (independent adviser on ministerial standards Sir Laurie Magnus) looking to establish the facts of this case and he will make a judgment.
“I am not independent in the sense that I'm a ministerial colleague of hers, so it's not for me to make a judgment. "I'm sure that (the ethics adviser) will.". Pressed again on whether she should stand aside, he added: "She's getting on with doing her job... corruption is a process that's managed across government, between the Home Office, the Treasury.
“The Prime Minister's independent adviser is looking carefully at the circumstances of this particular case and the Prime Minister will ultimately make a decision.". Ms Siddiq’s aunt resigned and fled to India in August last year after weeks of protests at her leadership in Bangladesh spiralled into nationwide unrest that led to over 1,500 deaths.
