Controversial in her own right, Hasina is also the aunt of Labour MP Tulip Siddiq - who resigned as Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's anti-corruption minister last week after a slew of corruption allegations that she denied.

Britain's Keir Starmer faced fresh pressure Monday to sack his anti-corruption minister Tulip Siddiq, as Bangladesh's graft watchdog filed new cases against her and her aunt, the country's ousted leader Sheikh Hasina.

Keir Starmer will face the Tory leader Kemi Badenoch less than 24 hours after Tulip Siddiq resigned as a Treasury minister. Follow all the latest updates from Prime Minister's Questions

She is suspected by Bangladesh of siphoning funds from infrastructural projects. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Tulip Siddiq has become the third high-profile figure to leave Sir Keir Starmer's Labour Government since the party's election victory in July last year.

The Prime Minister seems to be on a different planet to ordinary Britons and Labour's latest scandal is stark proof of this fact.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer faced fresh pressure Monday to sack his anti-corruption minister Tulip Siddiq, amid accusations over her family ties to Bangladesh's toppled premier.

Former anti-corruption minister passed on concerns of ‘secret detention cells’ under her aunt’s regime to shadow minister

Sir Keir Starmer facing growing calls to sack his anti-corruption minister, who referred herself to standards watchdog last week

Michael Saunders, a former member of the BoE's monetary policy committee which sets interest rates, said the latest inflation figure would be "some help" in trying to ease some of the worries over the UK economy - more on that in our next post.

This is a tale of two ex-ministers: the first ministerial casualties of Sir Keir Starmer's government, after just six months in power. Spot the difference. Louise Haigh, the crimson-haired left-wing former transport secretary, was thrown under the bus within hours of Sky News revealing a mobile phone fraud.

Independent adviser on ministerial standards says it is ‘regrettable’ Siddiq was ‘not more alert to the potential reputational risks’ of her close family’s association with Bangladesh