Who is Municipal Minister Tulip Siddiqui?

Tulip Siddiq has been the Labor MP for Hampstead and Highgate, previously Hampstead and Kilburn, since 2015.

When Labor won power in July, he was appointed Economic Secretary to the Treasury and City Minister, responsible for the UK financial services sector.

She is the niece of Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh’s longest-serving prime minister, who was ousted by a pro-democracy rebellion earlier this year.

He has now been named in an investigation into claims his family embezzled almost £4 billion from the country’s infrastructure projects.

A source close to him described it as a “fabricated allegation”.

Siddiq’s father was a university professor in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, and his mother was granted political asylum in Britain as the teenage sister of Sheikh Hasina.

They met and married in London, and later moved their family – Siddiq has an older brother and a younger sister – to Hampstead.

Siddiq, who grew up as a Muslim, said the family “embraced multicultural Britain… with the (local) Jewish community at the heart”.

As a child, she met Nelson Mandela, Bill Clinton and Mother Teresa, and her family was invited to the White House.

His maternal grandfather was Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the first President of Bangladesh. He and most of his family were killed when soldiers attacked his home in Dhaka in a military coup in 1975.

Siddiq’s mother and aunt survived as they were abroad.

Siddiq joined the Labor Party at the age of 16, later citing the NHS and caring for her disabled father as the main reasons.

She has described former cabinet minister Barbara Castle as her political heroine and has described her mother and aunt as “two very strong feminists”.

Before politics, she worked for Amnesty International, Save the Children and the Greater London Authority, among others.

As of 2010, she was working with Ed Miliband’s successful campaign for Labor leadershipThe former Cabinet minister is also spending time as a special adviser to Tessa Jowell.

She was also elected to Camden Council in North London. Siddiq was selected as Labour’s parliamentary candidate for the Hampstead and Kilburn seat, after former Oscar-winning actress Glenda Jackson announced her intention to stand as MP.

Siddiq was one of 36 Labor MPs elected to Parliament in the 2015 general election Jeremy Corbyn nominated for party leadershipBut he supported Andy Burnham in that election.

She will be re-elected with much larger majorities in 2017, 2019 and 2024.

Appointed a shadow education minister in 2016, she resigned from the front bench after three months for voting against triggering Brexit.

Siddiq is perhaps best known for his election campaigning The release of his constituent, British-Iranian national Nazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeWho was detained in Iran for almost six years.

In 2017, while campaigning for Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s release, Siddiq was asked in a Channel 4 News interview why she did not challenge her aunt, who was being held by an authoritarian government accused of human rights abuses in Bangladesh. Was charged with leading.

Controversy arose, with the programme’s editor complaining that his behavior towards a pregnant producer was “threatening”, and Siddiq apologized,

They married in 2013. She gave birth to her second child two days ago in 2019 Attended the Commons in a wheelchair For a crucial Brexit vote. Later that month, following a rule change, she became the first MP to vote by proxy.