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Breaking: Labor's anti-corruption minister resigns over alleged corruption links
BBC ^ | Jan 14 | BBC

Posted on 01/14/2025 9:57:57 AM PST by RandFan

SUMMARY

Treasury minister Tulip Siddiq resigns after growing pressure over an anti-corruption investigation in Bangladesh

The Labour MP for Hampstead and Highgate last week referred herself to Prime Minister Keir Starmer's standards adviser Laurie Magnus - but insisted she had done nothing wrong

In a letter to Starmer, Siddiq said that while Magnus found she had not breached ministerial rules, "continuing in my role as economic secretary to the Treasury is likely to be a distraction from the work of government"

The PM said in response that he accepted her resignation with "sadness" and his government's door "remains open for you"

Siddiq was recently named in an investigation into claims her family embezzled up to £3.9bn from infrastructure spending in Bangladesh - where he aunt is the former prime minister

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


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1 posted on 01/14/2025 9:57:57 AM PST by RandFan
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To: RandFan

fox...henhouse


2 posted on 01/14/2025 10:07:23 AM PST by xp38
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To: RandFan

“Tulip Siddiq”


Sounds like a good Anglo-Saxon name.


3 posted on 01/14/2025 10:46:14 AM PST by hanamizu ( )
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To: RandFan

Import third world garbage people. Become a third world garbage country. Not all cultures are the same and diversity is a suicide pack.


4 posted on 01/14/2025 12:27:31 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: RandFan
Siddiq was recently named in an investigation into claims her family embezzled up to £3.9bn from infrastructure spending in Bangladesh - where he aunt is the former prime minister...

Hmm...that works out to 578,667,000,000 Taka in Bangladesh currency. That's a boatload of Taka. I'm sure there's a perfectly reasonable explanation...

5 posted on 01/14/2025 12:46:20 PM PST by Billthedrill
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I lived 5 years in Hampstead in the 1980s.

Find it hard to believe that a corrupt Muslim from Bangladesh represents that area in Parliament.

What a garbage country the UK is now.


6 posted on 01/14/2025 1:51:08 PM PST by FlyingEagle
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