The Bangladesh Anti-Corruption Commission has filed additional charges against Tulip Siddiq following her sentence last month. Siddiq is accused – which she has always denied – of influencing her aunt to illegally gain plots of land…
After a delayed court process, the result of which was the ACC dropping one of the accused from its case, the commission has filed charges against Siddiq and a urban development agency official. It alleges that Siddiq gained a flat near Dhaka for free in an “illegal benefit”…
Siddiq has always maintained that the legal process is a political conflict aimed at the family of her aunt Sheikh Hasina, the ousted dictator currently in hiding in India. The additional charges were filed midweek…
Andy Haldane, Burnham’s recent adviser on the economy who has not taken up a No10 job, told Andrew Marr on LBC:
“The market now suspects that this is a traditional tax-and-spend socialist government with better TikTok videos…
imposing windfall taxes on oil & gas or on banks or upping capital gains tax would […] repeat the mistake that Rachel made […] The Achilles heel, the fiscal Achilles heel of this government thus far has been its unwillingness and/or inability to cut public spending.”