Now Tulip’s resignation as UK MP demanded

Disgraced City Minister Tulip Siddiq faces calls to resign as an MP following a corruption investigation, Daily Mail reports.

Ms Tulip resigned as Treasury Minister this month after she and family members were accused of siphoning off £3.9billion from Bangladesh through her aunt, the country’s ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed.

Ms Tulip denied the allegations and referred herself to the Independent Adviser on Ministerial Standards, Sir Laurie Magnus, who concluded Ms Tulip ‘misled’ the public by denying she had received a King’s Cross flat as a gift.

However, this weekend Tories launched a campaign for her to stand down in Hampstead and Highgate, with a petition tomorrow demanding she face her constituents.

Leaflets referenced a Mail report about her alleged involvement in the £3.9billion embezzlement.

Senior Tory official in Camden David Douglas said she ‘is not the nice little girl everyone thinks she is’.

Ms Tulip finally quit her Treasury post on January 14, 26 days after the Mail revealed she was facing a major corruption probe in Bangladesh.

The anti-corruption minister and close friend of Sir Keir Starmer resigned after the Labour leader was effectively advised to sack her over her links to her aunt’s regime in Dhaka.

Sir Laurie Magnus, the Prime Minister’s ethics adviser, said it was ‘regrettable’ that Ms Tulip had not been more alert to the reputational risks of her family ties to the deposed former prime minister of Bangladesh.