Sunday shows: calls grow for Tulip Siddiq to resign

Peter Kyle: Tulip Siddiq will lose job if inquiry finds her guilty of breaking ministerial code

The Conservatives have called for the prime minister to sack anti-corruption Treasury Minister Tulip Siddiq after she herself became part of a corruption investigation. Reports have emerged that Siddiq may have been living in properties linked to her aunt, Sheikh Hasina, who is being investigated for allegedly embezzling up to £3.9bn whilst serving as prime minister of Bangladesh. Siddiq has referred herself to the ethics advisor, but on Sky News, Trevor Phillips asked Science Secretary Peter Kyle whether Siddiq should stand down while the investigation takes place. Kyle said that Siddiq had ‘done exactly the right thing’, and that the outcome of the investigation ‘will be stuck to’ by Keir Starmer. Phillips argued that if the same thing had happened to the Conservatives, Labour would be demanding a resignation. Kyle contrasted Labour’s approach with the previous government’s, suggesting that the Tories had not acted on the conclusions of the inquiry into former Home Secretary Priti Patel for bullying.