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Tulip Siddiq has become the third high-profile figure to leave Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Government since the party’s election victory in July last year. He resignation as Treasury minister on Tuesday came after the departures of Louise Haigh as transport secretary in November and Sue Gray as Downing Street chief of staff in October.
– Tulip Siddiq. The Labour MP for Hampstead and Highgate, who was first elected in 2015, stepped down as Treasury minister over allegations linked to her aunt’s political movement in Bangladesh. Her 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 Ms Siddiq reportedly named as part of the case.
Ms Siddiq has also come under scrutiny over her use of properties in London linked to her aunt’s allies. In a letter to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, she said she had not breached the ministerial code but that continuing in her role would be a “distraction”.
Sir Keir accepted her resignation “with sadness” and said she had made a “difficult decision” and that he wanted “to be clear that the door remains open for you going forward”. Ms Siddiq had referred herself to the Prime Minister’s ethics tsar, Sir Laurie Magnus, who said he had not found any breach of the ministerial code but advised that Sir Keir reconsider her responsibilities.
