Starmer’s corruption minister refers herself to standards adviser

Back to the curious case of Tulip Siddiq, the Labour MP for Hampstead and Highgate who also works as the government’s City minister. Sir Keir Starmer revealed this morning that the Labour minister – who has also been tasked with the job of tackling financial crime and corruption – has now referred herself to the government’s adviser on ministerial standards over her property holdings after she came under further scrutiny over the weekend. Dear oh dear…

As Steerpike noted back in December, the Labour minister was named in an embezzlement probe after it emerged that Bangladesh’s Anti-Corruption Commission was investigating the MP, her mother and her aunt Sheikh Hasina – who also happened to be the country’s authoritarian premier until last year. The MP has denied accusations that she helped to embezzle billions of pounds from a nuclear energy project in Bangladesh – but that’s not the only controversy she’s embroiled in.