Resignationcast: Tulip Siddiq
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Today, the Treasury minister Tulip Siddiq has resigned after growing pressure over an anti-corruption investigation in Bangladesh.
The Labour MP last week referred herself to Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s standards adviser Sir Laurie Magnus - but insisted she has done nothing wrong. She said in a letter today that whilst Sir Laurie found she had not breached by the Ministerial Code that "it is clear that continuing in my role as Economic Secretary to the Treasury is likely to be a distraction from the work of Government.” Chris and Adam are joined by political and investigations correspondent Joe Pike.
And, Israel and Hamas are thought to be close to agreeing a deal which could halt the war in Gaza and see the release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners. Adam is joined by diplomatic correspondent James Landale.
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| 0:04.6 | Hello, there's a big breaking story at Westminster as we're recording this episode of Newscast on Tuesday evening, |
| 0:10.1 | which means I have another opportunity to speak to Chris Mason, |
| 0:13.1 | which means another opportunity to actually try and pin him down to find out what he's doing on the 5th of February. |
| 0:19.0 | Because in the previous episode of Newscast, I revealed to him that that is when we were having a big, live episode of |
| 0:25.4 | newscast with a big audience in the BBC Radio Theatre in London to celebrate the fifth |
| 0:30.7 | birthday of newscast becoming a daily podcast. And he sounded a little bit non-committal. So let's give it another go. And actually, |
| 0:39.4 | I'm going to have another go at encouraging you to apply for tickets. There's a ballot, because |
| 0:43.7 | unfortunately we can't fit everyone into the radio theatre, but we will fit in as many as possible. |
| 0:48.6 | And you can apply for the ballot for tickets through the BBC's shows and tours page. |
| 0:55.8 | And there was a link to that in the episode's description of this very episode of newscast that you're listening to now. |
| 1:02.7 | So scroll down and click on that if you fancy joining us for our fifth birthday party, |
| 1:08.0 | although I'm not sure a party is quite the right word, on the 5th of February. |
| 1:11.6 | And you can register any time up to 11, 59pm on Monday, the 20th of January. |
| 1:18.0 | So you've got just under a week to do that. |
| 1:22.2 | And you've got about 28 and a half minutes now to listen to this episode of Newscast. |
| 1:27.1 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 1:29.4 | I like landscapes. |
| 1:30.4 | I don't think I'm being rude. |
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| 1:32.4 | Unemployed people who are overweight. |
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