The Labor Party won the UK general election last year. Keir Starmer then took over as Prime Minister. He appointed Tulip Siddiq as City Minister in the cabinet he formed in the new government. His job was to prevent possible corruption in the country’s financial affairs. However, he was forced to leave the ministry in the face of allegations of corruption that he was given the responsibility of preventing. Tulip was known to be a close friend of Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
Prime Minister Starmer has come under fire from members of his own party after Tulip resigned. “The decision to make Tulip a minister was a suicide goal,” a Labor MP told The Guardian. Everyone knew that he had relations with the political figures of Bangladesh. Those who have a lot of power and money. What was good about giving him this responsibility to do so much?”
Meanwhile, Tulip Siddiq has a flat in King’s Cross area of London, which is worth 1 lakh 95 thousand pounds (2 crore 93 lakh 97 thousand rupees in Bangladeshi currency). In a report on January 3, the UK daily Financial Times said that the 2-bedroom flat was gifted to Tulip in 2004 by a developer named Abdul Motalif.
Motalif is known to be close to Sheikh Hasina, the ousted prime minister of Bangladesh and Tulip’s aunt. Tulip came under a lot of pressure after the information about this flat came to light. After that, he was accused of embezzling money from Ruppur nuclear power plant in Bangladesh. After all this his ministry became shaky. In the end, he had to leave after being accused of corruption.
42-year-old Tulip Siddique joined the Labor Party at the age of 16. In the 2015 parliamentary elections, he became a first-time candidate from the East London constituency of Hampstead. Since then, Tulip has contested the seat four times, winning each time. After winning the 2024 election, Prime Minister Keir Starmer appointed him to the Treasury and Urban Affairs of the United Kingdom.
Source: The Guardian.