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Tulip Siddiq handed two-year sentence in Bangladesh

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All is not well in Labour party at present. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has spent the morning defending his Chancellor Rachel Reeves and her autumn Budget, cabinet ministers are complaining to journalists that they were kept in the dark over the state of the nation’s finances and a group of Scottish Labour MPs are plotting to oust Starmer. But the PM’s top team aren’t the only people under fire today: Labour MP Tulip Siddiq has been sentenced to two years in jail in Bangladesh over corruption claims linked to her aunt Sheikh Hasina. Crikey!

The niece of Bangladesh’s onetime authoritarian premier was tried in abstentia and found guilty of corruption charges. It comes after Siddiq........

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