Resigned anti-corruption minister Tulip Siddiq is still making headlines. Hacks are finally questioning Starmer’s judgement…
In an exclusive Guido interview prominent Bangladeshi opposition member Bobby Hajjaj claimed Tulip holds dual citizenship and “even though Bangladesh and the UK don’t have an official extradition treaty I believe but there are certain terms and understandings on those terms. So from our end we will certainly push for the ACC and law enforcement here to ask for Tulip to come and face law enforcement, or face the courts.“ Her team has not commented on her alleged possession of dual nationality. A Bangladeshi court order bears a Bangladeshi National ID Card number for her, suggesting she is a Bangladeshi dual national…
The UK agrees extraditions on a case by case basis with Bangladesh. The way things are going with the Anti-Corruption Commission’s multiple investigations, Tulip could be called before their courts. Guido asked Downing Street this afternoon if the UK government would oblige Tulip to comply with an order: the PM’s spokesman said Downing Street “wouldn’t get into hypotheticals.” No comment…
Green Deputy Leader Rachel Millward said:
“The reality is that it’s Zack Polanski who brought the nation, Andy Burnham. And if we hadn’t had the success of the Green Party in this last year since Zack’s been leading, which has been unprecedented, phenomenal success and a growth from about 60,000 members to 230,000, if we hadn’t had that much pressure on Labour, then we’d probably still be in the Starmer regime, which was pretty much ushering in a Reform government with its lurch to the right. So actually, what we’re seeing now is that we’ve set the political agenda and the government is picking that up.”