Treasury minister Tulip Siddiq has resigned, after growing pressure about allegations of corruption linked to her aunt, the deposed prime minister of Bangladesh. The Labour MP for Hampstead and Highgate,

Tulip Siddiq has resigned her role as City minister amid allegations about her financial links to the former Bangladeshi government.

It has emerged that Ms Siddiq has lived in two homes owned by figures associated with the Awami League and currently rents a third one. She strongly denies any wrongdoing and her allies suggest the charges have been trumped up by her aunt’s political enemies.

Treasury minister Tulip Siddiq has resigned after being embroiled in a corruption scandal, Downing Street has confirmed.

Treasury minister Tulip Siddiq has resigned after growing pressure over an anti-corruption investigation in Bangladesh. She had referred herself to the prime minister's standards adviser, Sir Laurie Magnus, after questions about links to her aunt, who was ousted last year as Bangladesh's prime minister.

Tulip Siddiq, the United Kingdom's anti-corruption minister and niece of deposed Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, has resigned from her government post. Siddiq's resignation comes amid growing calls for her to resign over alleged involvement in corruption investigations concerning her family.

Cabinet minister Kemi Badenoch has defended the investigation into Tulip Siddiq, who stepped down as Treasury minister after being cleared of breaching the ministerial code.

A cabinet minister has defended the government's handling of the investigation into Treasury minister Tulip Siddiq before her resignation on Tuesday. Siddiq resigned after the prime minister's Standards Adviser Sir Laurie Magnus ruled she had not broken the ministerial code but had "inadvertently misled" the public about a flat gifted by an ally of her aunt,