Starmer backs Labour minister named in corruption probe

The Labour drama just never seems to stop. All eyes are now on Tulip Siddiq after the Daily Mail revealed the Labour minister was named in an embezzlement probe. It has been reported that Bangladesh’s Anti-Corruption Commission has launched an investigation into the lefty MP, her mother and her aunt over claims the family embezzled billions from infrastructure projects. How curious…

Siddiq herself is alleged to have helped broker a deal with Russia in 2013 that overinflated the price of a nuclear power plant. The Labour MP has been accused of helping her aunt Sheikh Hasina – Bangladesh’s recently-ousted PM – to siphon off large sums of money intended for eight infrastructure projects, with the claims coming as part of a wider investigation into Hasina.

Although the Labour politician has not yet commented on the allegations herself, figures in her party have slammed them as ‘spurious’, while the BBC reports a source close to Siddiq has blasted the claims as ‘trumped up charges’ that are ‘completely politically motivated’.