Under fire Treasury Minister Tulip Siddiq has resigned weeks after calls for her to quit intensified.
Ms Siddiq, whose role as Treasury economic secretary included tackling corruption in UK financial markets, has been .
She denies the allegations.
Here is a timeline of events which led to Sir ’s ally quitting.
Tulip Siddiq at Labour’s conference (Image: Getty)
2009
Ms Siddiq’s aunt Sheikh Hasina became the Prime Minister of Bangladesh while the current MP was running to be a Labour councillor in London.
2013
Ms Siddiq is pictured alongside her aunt meeting Russian President in Moscow. Bangladeshi authorities are now investigating whether Ms Siddiq helped broker a deal for the Russians to build a power plant in Bangladesh allegedly at an inflated price, allowing her family members to embezzle money from the scheme.
2015
Ms Siddiq went to an Awami League Party rally in the UK soon after being elected to parliament for the first time. Her aunt also attended the rally.
2024
- Ms Siddiq’s aunt Hasina was toppled last year after a student-led uprising, which led to the deaths of about 1,000 people
- Ms Siddiq was appointed to the role of City Minister by Sir following Labour’s July election victory.
- The Labour MP is named in a Bangladeshi corruption probe.
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2025
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It emerges that Ms Siddiq benefited from a series of properties paid for by people with links to the party – a flat in King’s Cross given to her for free, a flat in Hampstead once used by Siddiq and gifted to her sister for free, and a £2.1m house in Finchley, owned by a developer with political links to her aunt, where she now lives and pays rent.
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Ms Siddiq refers herself to the government’s adviser on ministerial standards, Sir Laurie Magnus, over her property holdings
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The Labour MP quits her role as Treasury Minister, which Sir Keir accepts “with sadness”. Her letter focused on Sir Laurie’s conclusion that the Labour MP has “not breached the ministerial code”.