Tulip Siddiq resigns as economic secretary following weeks of pressure

Relates to alleged Bangladeshi financial links

Eve Maddock-Jones
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Tulip Siddiq has resigned as economic secretary to the Treasury, after repeated questions about her financial links to the ousted Bangladeshi government run by her aunt.

In a letter to the prime minister, Siddiq thanked him for the "confidence" he had shown towards her in recent weeks and said she had been grateful for having the chance to "share the full details of my finances and living arrangements, both present and historic". Siddiq has been under pressure over allegations about properties linked to her aunt Sheikh Hasina, who was deposed as Bangladesh's longest-serving prime minister in August. The now former minister referred herself to the PM's ethics watchdog last week over the matter. She said in the letter that ethics adviser Laurie Magnu...

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