Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2024 23:59:20 GMT
A Labour minister is living in a £2 million house owned by a close political ally of her aunt, the ousted Bangladeshi prime minister.
Tulip Siddiq, the economic secretary to the Treasury and City minister, moved out of a flat she owns in north London two years ago into a five- bedroom home a few miles away owned by the millionaire businessman Abdul Karim.
Karim has close links to Siddiq’s aunt, Sheikh Hasina, who was prime minister of Bangladesh until she was forced out of office this month.
Last month it emerged that Siddiq was under investigation by parliament’s standards watchdog after allegedly failing to declare income from letting out her former flat when she moved into Karim’s property. However, she was cleared after apologising for the error, blaming it on an “administrative oversight”. The commissioner said the breach had been inadvertent.
Labour sources said that she had needed to move out of her flat because of security concerns and was paying rent on the new house at a rate “consistent with market levels”.
Tulip Siddiq, the economic secretary to the Treasury and City minister, moved out of a flat she owns in north London two years ago into a five- bedroom home a few miles away owned by the millionaire businessman Abdul Karim.
Karim has close links to Siddiq’s aunt, Sheikh Hasina, who was prime minister of Bangladesh until she was forced out of office this month.
Last month it emerged that Siddiq was under investigation by parliament’s standards watchdog after allegedly failing to declare income from letting out her former flat when she moved into Karim’s property. However, she was cleared after apologising for the error, blaming it on an “administrative oversight”. The commissioner said the breach had been inadvertent.
Labour sources said that she had needed to move out of her flat because of security concerns and was paying rent on the new house at a rate “consistent with market levels”.
The usual Lab cronyism and corruption - when the Tories do it, it's bad, when Lab do it it - it's fine
To paraphrase Nixon - 'if the ruling party does it, that means it's not unethical'