Tulip Siddiq has instructed lawyers Stephenson Harwood to write to the Bangladesh Anti-Corruption Commission with regard to their multiple investigations and allegations into the MP. Their key points:
This is Siddiq’s first substantial response since her resignation. The lawyers demand questions from the ACC “promptly” and “no later than 25 March 2025” or they “presume that there are no legitimate questions to answer.” In response the ACC has said in a letter that Siddiq had “spent most of her adult life residing in homes owned by cronies of the notoriously venal Awami League” and her “claims to have been unaware of the nature of the Hasina regime.” The ACC says it will be in touch with Siddiq’s lawyers in “due course”…
ACC chairman Mohammad Abdul Momen adds: “All allegations raised against Ms Siddiq will be proven in any court, including the ones in the United Kingdom.” Starmer, meanwhile, has by leaving the door open for Siddiq’s return done “injustice to and defamed the name Kier Hardie, the founder of the Labour Party, from whom his parents had said to have drawn his name. As Britain is a frontrunner of democracy I expect a British Premier to be a role model for the world.” Developments…
Paula Barker, Liverpool Wavertree MP backing Andy Burnham, told Times Radio there wouldn’t be trouble from the markets under Burnham:
“The markets will have to fall in line.”