Pressure Mounts On Keir Starmer As Kemi Badenoch Calls For Tulip Siddiq To Be Sacked

Tulip Siddiq, anti-corruption minister

Keir Starmer is under pressurefrom the Tories to sack Tulip Siddiq after the minister was accused of corruption.

Siddiq, the anti-corruption minister, is alleged to have been involved in brokering a deal with Russia for a nuclear power plant in Bangladesh in 2013, with billions of pounds reportedly embezzled in that agreement.

The minister’s aunt, Sheikh Hasina, was the prime minister of Bangladesh for more the 20 years. She was deposed last year and under investigation.