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.

The calls started growing after Bangladesh’s current Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus condemned the use of properties she allegedly received through her aunt, who is facing her own share of legal scrutiny

Siddiq earlier had referred herself to the independent adviser on ministerial standards when media reports brought to light that the London properties she lived in had been gifted by Awami League. In her letter to the authorities,

UK PM Keir Starmer is under pressure to sack Labour minister Tulip Siddiq, deposed Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina’s niece, after interim leader Muhammad Yunus condemned the use of properties allegedly gifted to her and her family in London by allies of the former regime.

Sheikh Hasina Wazed’s niece, Tulip Siddiq, resigned on Tuesday as a minister in Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour government after weeks of damaging headlines about how she had allegedly benefitted financially from her links to her aunt’s Awami League.

Anti-corruption minister Tulip Siddiq resigned from the UK government Tuesday after being named in graft probes in Bangladesh launched when her aunt, Sheikh Hasina, was ousted as the country's leader.

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s anti-corruption minister resigned on Tuesday, bowing to mounting pressure over her links to her aunt, ousted Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Sir Keir Starmer faced fresh calls from the Tories on Saturday to sack Ms Siddiq as a minister, as Bangladesh’s leader Muhammad Yunus called for an investigation into the properties to determine whether they were acquired through “plain robbery”.

Tulip Siddiq has resigned as the government’s anti-corruption minister. In a fresh blow for Keir Starmer, she said she did not want to be a “distraction from the work of the government” following the controversy over her links to her aunt, Sheikh Hasina, who is the former prime minister of Bangladesh.

Treasury minister Tulip Siddiq is coming under increasing pressure over the way she used properties that were reportedly gifted to her. She has denied any wrongdoing.

UK Opposition leader Kemi Badenoch called upon the Starmer government to sack Siddiq. Mounting an attack on Starmer, Badenoch said that the Prime Minister appointed his "personal friend" an anti-corruption minister who herself is accused of corruption.

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