Tulip Siddiq, Labour’s anti-corruption minister has been accused of corruption. Oh, the irony!
As Economic Secretary to the Treasury and City Minister, she is responsible for tackling corruption in the UK’s financial markets – but has been accused of corruptly helping her family embezzle up to £3.9 billion out of infrastructure projects in Bangladesh.
The example given by the BBC is that she helped her aunt, Sheikh Hasina Siddiq – who was deposed as prime minister of that country in August, by brokering a deal with Russia in 2013 that overinflated the price of a new nuclear power plant.
Siddiq has denied any involvement in the claims – but has recused herself – stepped away – from any political decisions involving Bangladesh.
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For clarity it must be said that ousted leaders of Bangladesh are often accused of corruption, and the independence of the Bangladeshi judiciary has long been considered questionable.
So it seems a little premature for Tory shadow home office minister Matt Vickers to be saying, “The fact Labour’s anti-corruption minister is reportedly embroiled in a corruption case is the latest stain on Keir Starmer’s judgement.”
It also seems hypocritical for a Tory to be saying that. Remember the corruption claims around the ‘test and trace’ organisation that Dido Harding ran for the Conservative government during the Covid-19 pandemic?
It was suggested that ‘Test and Trace’ was nothing more than a conduit through which the Tories were corruptly draining the public purse.
One appropriate reaction might have been to refer the matter to the government’s anti-corruption champion – but at the time, that would have been John Penrose MP, who happens to be Ms Harding’s husband.
The conflict of interest was clear but nothing was done about it – which in itself has struck many as being corrupt.
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Labour’s anti-corruption minister has been accused of corruption. Oh, the irony!
Tulip Siddiq, Labour’s anti-corruption minister has been accused of corruption. Oh, the irony!
As Economic Secretary to the Treasury and City Minister, she is responsible for tackling corruption in the UK’s financial markets – but has been accused of corruptly helping her family embezzle up to £3.9 billion out of infrastructure projects in Bangladesh.
The example given by the BBC is that she helped her aunt, Sheikh Hasina Siddiq – who was deposed as prime minister of that country in August, by brokering a deal with Russia in 2013 that overinflated the price of a new nuclear power plant.
Siddiq has denied any involvement in the claims – but has recused herself – stepped away – from any political decisions involving Bangladesh.
Buy Cruel Britannia in print here. Buy the Cruel Britannia ebook here. Or just click on the image!
For clarity it must be said that ousted leaders of Bangladesh are often accused of corruption, and the independence of the Bangladeshi judiciary has long been considered questionable.
So it seems a little premature for Tory shadow home office minister Matt Vickers to be saying, “The fact Labour’s anti-corruption minister is reportedly embroiled in a corruption case is the latest stain on Keir Starmer’s judgement.”
It also seems hypocritical for a Tory to be saying that. Remember the corruption claims around the ‘test and trace’ organisation that Dido Harding ran for the Conservative government during the Covid-19 pandemic?
It was suggested that ‘Test and Trace’ was nothing more than a conduit through which the Tories were corruptly draining the public purse.
One appropriate reaction might have been to refer the matter to the government’s anti-corruption champion – but at the time, that would have been John Penrose MP, who happens to be Ms Harding’s husband.
The conflict of interest was clear but nothing was done about it – which in itself has struck many as being corrupt.
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