However bad the summer recess has been for the Government, it’s been considerably worse for Labour MP and former Treasury minister Tulip Siddiq.
Having resigned from the Government at the beginning of this year after she became the subject of a corruption inquiry in her parents’ native Bangladesh, the Hampstead and Highgate MP is now, in her absence, on trial there, along with a number of other members of her family. If found guilty she faces life imprisonment.
The details of the charges say less about Keir Starmer’s unfortunate tendency to lose ministers accused of dubious conduct – Siddiq’s resignation was preceded by Louise Haigh’s departure as transport secretary after a historic charge of fraud was unearthed, and succeeded by the resignation of homelessness minister Rushanara Ali after she was accused of evicting tenants of her privately rented property then hiking the rent by £700 a month – than it does about the regrettable political culture in Bangladesh.
However bad the summer recess has been for the Government, it’s been considerably worse for Labour MP and former Treasury minister Tulip Siddiq.
Having resigned from the Government at the beginning of this year after she became the subject of a corruption inquiry in her parents’ native Bangladesh, the Hampstead and Highgate MP is now, in her absence, on trial there, along with a number of other members of her family. If found guilty she faces life imprisonment.
The details of the charges say less about Keir Starmer’s unfortunate tendency to lose ministers accused of dubious conduct – Siddiq’s resignation was preceded by Louise Haigh’s departure as transport secretary after a historic charge of fraud was unearthed, and succeeded by the resignation of homelessness minister Rushanara Ali after she was accused of evicting tenants of her privately rented property then hiking the rent by £700 a month – than it does about the regrettable political culture in Bangladesh.