I’m seriously tempted to change this thread’s title back to ‘Sir Keir’s Kerfuffle’.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyk2e7x42zo
Quote:
Treasury minister Tulip Siddiq has resigned after growing pressure over an anti-corruption investigation in Bangladesh.
The Labour MP for Hampstead and Highgate had referred herself to the PM's standards adviser, Sir Laurie Magnus, but insisted she has done nothing wrong.
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Whether or not she actually is mired in any of this is besides the point. The tin-eared refusal to accept that someone whose brief includes anti corruption can’t stay in post while they remain implicated in a corruption scandal is jaw-dropping. She was always going to have to resign and all this inept government has achieved in not dealing with it the first opportunity is yet more unfavourable headlines.