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UK Cities Minister Tulip Siddiq is facing fresh pressure to step down as the opposition leader calls for her ouster after she became embroiled in a property scandal linked to the ousted Bangladeshi government.

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer should sack Siddique, whose role covers anti-corruption policy, from the Awami League, the party led by her aunt Sheikh Hasina, a former prime minister of Bangladesh.

“It’s time for Keir Starmer to sack Tulip Siddiq,” says Aden in A Stick on the X Saturday night. “The Prime Minister has tried to make a big commitment to standards and integrity. . . The weak lead on Siddiq suggests he is not as honestly concerned as he says he is.

In an investigation by the Financial Times earlier this week, Siddique referred herself to Minister Laurie Magnus as an adviser to the government’s ministerial qualifications. A two-room apartment is provided At King’s Cross in London in the early 2000s by a man linked to the Awami League.

On Sunday, a cabinet minister suggested that Siddique would be sacked if the investigation found fault. Science Minister Peter Kyle told Sky’s Trevor Phillips: “The question must go through.

I think this is the right way forward. I’m giving him all the space he needs to do. I will listen to the results as the Prime Minister will.

“It will be a hands-on process, the outcome of which will be stuck with the Prime Minister and this government, which is in stark contrast to the past.

Siddiqui has said she has done nothing wrong and Number 10 insiders have yet to see any evidence of any breach of ministerial rules.

The city minister lived in several other properties belonging to the previous Awami League regime, which was It came down last summer Initially following the student-led protests, hundreds of innocent civilians were killed in a crackdown by security forces.

In an interview with the Sunday Times, Nobel Peace Prize-winning economist and interim leader of Bangladesh Mohammad Yunus said the assets used by Siddiqui should be returned if the ministry is found to have used “blatant looting”.

“She will be the anti-corruption minister and she will defend herself (on London properties),” he said. “Maybe you didn’t realize it, but now you do. You say: ‘I’m sorry, I didn’t know it at the time. I’m going to apologize to people for doing this and resign.’ She’s not saying that. She defends herself.

It was Sidiq. Named in the investigation Last month, Bangladesh’s anti-corruption commission denied allegations that Sheikh Hasina’s political rivals, including Siddique, were cut out of a Russian-backed nuclear power project.

In August, Bangladesh’s interim government appointed Ahsan Mansoor, a former IMF official, to head the country’s central bank and the country’s new leaders began repatriating billions of dollars they said had gone overseas from the banking system.

In an interview in October Mansoor told FTA. It announced that Tk2tn ($16.7bn) had been taken out of the country after people linked to the Awami League forcibly took control of leading banks using schemes such as fake loans and inflated invoices.

Bangladesh’s Financial Intelligence Unit ordered banks in the country last week. To provide transaction details For all accounts related to Siddique and her family, people familiar with the matter say.

Siddiq’s partner said she only maintains a UK bank account and has no accounts.

Downing Street said earlier this week that it trusted Siddiqui’s advice and that she had done the right thing by referring herself to an independent adviser.