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.

Keir Starmer will face the Tory leader Kemi Badenoch less than 24 hours after Tulip Siddiq resigned as a Treasury minister. Follow all the latest updates from Prime Minister's Questions

So long, Siddiq WHY did Tulip Siddiq not quit earlier — and Keir Starmer put up with her so long? Even when it was blindingly obvious no “anti-corruption minister” could survive being engulfed by

The Prime Minister seems to be on a different planet to ordinary Britons and Labour's latest scandal is stark proof of this fact.

Yet Keir Starmer dithered and delayed to protect his close friend... 'Weak leadership from a weak Prime Minister.' Sheikh Hasina was deposed as Bangladesh's prime minister in August amid ...

Badenoch goes on to say the Tories left him the fastest growing economy in the G7 and says jobs and growth are down, mortgage rates up and business confidence down. She asks if the country can afford four more years of Starmer's "terrible" judgement.

Former Treasury minister Tulip Siddiq resigned after being named in an anti-corruption investigation in Bangladesh.

These changes make this an opportune moment for Sir Keir Starmer to re-engage with the EU. Next weekend the prime minister will attend his first informal summit with other European leaders in Brussels,

But are the allegations against the British MP politically motivated? Is the Yunus-led interim government settling scores with Hasina?

Siddiq quit as anti-corruption minister in Labour government after being named in a corruption inquiry in Bangladesh

Martin Ivens is the editor of the Times Literary Supplement. Previously, he was editor of the Sunday Times of London and its chief political commentator.

The interim government of Bangladesh has begun making the arrangements to remove the daughter of former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Saima Wazed from her post of Regional Director for South-East Asia in World Health Organization.