Is it time to lay off Tulip Siddiq?

We all have generous aunties, right? My own once let me live rent-free in her London flat for several months while I was teenaged, and broke, and working as a slave for Auberon Waugh’s Literary Review magazine. I can’t count the number of family dinners in the years since where I’ve had second helpings pressed on me at her groaning table. Aunts are often like that. So in the post-Christmas period, when many of us even now have extremities toasty warm from the socks and mittens left by such aunties under the tree, it is in a spirit of charity and understanding that we should approach the case of Tulip Siddiq, Labour MP for Hampstead and Highgate, and economic secretary to the Treasury, a job which includes special responsibility for corruption, money-laundering and dodgy finance of all stripes.

Siddiq’s aunty is Sheikh Hasina, former prime minister of Bangladesh.