The resignation of Tulip Siddiq

郁金香·西迪克辞职

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2025-01-16

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Political correspondent Kiran Stacey traces the allegations of corruption against Labour MP Tulip Siddiq that caused her to resign from her ministerial role in Keir Starmer’s government. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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  • This is the Guardian.

  • Today, the anti corruption minister resigns.

  • Accused of corruption herself.

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  • We're now going to come to a maiden Tulip Siddi.

  • When the Labour MP Tulip Siddique first stood to speak in Parliament in 2015, with Keir Starmer by her side, she paid tribute to the remarkable place she calls home.

  • Thank you, Mr.

  • Chairman.

  • It gives me great pleasure to make my maiden speech during the committee stage of the European Union referendum Bill, a topic that is close to my heart and to the hearts of my constituents.

  • In Hampstead and Kilburn, the North London constituency she'd just been elected to.

  • Hampstead and Kilburn has fomented centuries of intellectuals and artists, politicians and radicals, George Orwell, John Keats and Samuel Coleridge, Glenda Jackson and Slash from Guns N Roses, an affluent constituency, a place she portrayed as always welcoming outsiders, including her own family.

  • My constituency elected the daughter of a political asylum seeker.

  • My mother came to Kililburn in the 1970s because 19 members of her family had been assassinated at home.

  • My mother and my aunt were the two surviving daughters of the founding father of Bangladesh.

  • And I'm pleased to say that they are here in the chamber today listening to my maiden speech.

  • From the gallery.

  • Siddiq's aunt smiled back.

  • A proud auntie, yes, but also one of the most powerful women in the world, Sheikh Hasina, the then Prime Minister of Bangladesh.

  • In the years since then, events in Bangladesh under Sheikh Hasina have got darker and darker.

  • Her government now stands accused of killing hundreds of protesters, of election tampering and of rampant corruption.