When it rains for the Labour lot, it pours. Pressure is piling on Labour minister Tulip Siddiq to resign from her anti-corruption role as it now transpires the City minister has been named in a second Bangladesh corruption inquiry linked to her aunt’s corrupt regime. The UK Anti-Corruption Coalition has slammed Siddiq for remaining in post, insisting that the Labour MP ‘currently has a serious conflict of interests’. Oh dear.
As reported by the Times, Bangladesh’s Anti-Corruption Commission has claimed that Siddiq ‘reportedly used her influence and special powers’ to influence her aunt and former authoritarian premier of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina to allocate land to family members. Deputy director of the commission Muhammad Salahuddin claimed that the Labour anti-corruption minister found out that her aunt was using her power to allocate land plots – and intervened ‘to arrange similar allocations of plots in the same project’ in the names of family members.
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