131: Tulip Mania

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🗓️ 14 January 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Tulip Siddiq, until today the government’s anti-corruption minister, has resigned over alleged, er, corruption. Andy, Helen, Adam and Tim Minogue discuss the Eye’s history with the wilted Tulip, all the way back to 2016. Plus, everything about grooming gangs *except* a certain petulant billionaire, and the very latest news on David ‘Rommel’ Montgomery.

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0:00.0	Hi everybody, Andrew here. Just a quick pre-page 94 announcement, potentially a first, I think.
0:06.1	The conversation you're about to hear was recorded in the private eye offices yesterday afternoon.
0:11.3	The first section of yesterday's show was all about Tulip Sadiq, then the government's anti-corruption minister,
0:18.1	who had been in the news recently in a not completely favourable way.
0:21.8	Since we recorded that episode just 24 hours ago, Sadiq has resigned as the government's
0:27.2	anti-corruption minister. It's very clear to us that No. 10 heard that we were going to be
0:32.8	covering it on this week's page 94 and thought, the's up we better roll over now so when you hear
0:38.5	us talk about cidique as the anti-corruption minister in the present just try to rephrase that
0:42.4	as the very very recent past but as you're about to hear things go back much further than that
0:47.8	between tulip sidique and private eye page 94 the private eye podcast hello and welcome to
0:53.7	another episode of Page 94.
0:55.0	My name is Andrew Hunter Murray and I'm here in the Private Eye Office with Helen Lewis,
0:59.0	Adam McQueen and Tim Minogue.
1:00.0	We are here to discuss stories that have been in the news recently and our first one this week
1:05.0	is all about Tulip Sadiq, who you may have heard of.
1:08.0	She is the anti-corruption minister and she has been in the papers recently quite a bit because of some rather unorthodox housing arrangements she's made.
1:17.6	Now, you may well know, a lot of ministers get a nice residence to live in. Maybe it's Chequers, if you're the PM, maybe it's Chevening.
1:25.1	These tend to be owned by the government. It's a bit rarer for them to be
1:29.0	owned by large Bangladeshi companies which have links to your family members. Nonetheless,
1:35.3	that's what's been happening recently. Tulip Siddique's aunt is the PM of Bangladesh, or rather
1:40.4	she was, until August last year when she was deposed. Since then, the family have been accused of an extraordinary amount of embezzlement.
1:48.9	Billions of pounds, all to do with various dodgy contracts for nuclear power stations and that kind of thing.
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