Dhaka links How events far away hit home

When he became Labour leader in 2020, Keir Starmer was described by Tulip Siddiq in her local paper as a "good friend through thick and thin". Yesterday, she found out where the limits of that friendship lay.

- Kiran Stacey

"It is with sadness I accept your resignation from your ministerial role," the prime minister wrote in an otherwise effusive letter praising her achievements. Starmer's bond with his Labour colleague and constituency neighbour in north London may have protected her over the past few weeks as revelations mounted about her links with her aunt's deposed regime. But eventually, say experts, her family background was always likely to pose a problem for her role in the British government, not least because her ministerial responsibilities included anti-corruption policy.