Tulip Siddiq resigns as Treasury minister

Treasury curate Tulip Siddiq has resigned aft increasing unit implicit an anti-corruption probe successful 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 thing wrong.

She said that whilst Sir Laurie recovered she had not breached ministerial rules, it was "clear that continuing successful my relation arsenic Economic Secretary to the Treasury is apt to beryllium a distraction from the enactment of government."

Emma Reynolds MP has been appointed the caller Economic Secretary to the Treasury.

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