The Labour minister, her dictator aunt, and a meeting with Putin
The News Agents
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🗓️ 13 January 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
What is the story that links a Labour MP, a ransacked Bangladeshi palace, a free Hampstead property and Vladimir Putin? Today we delve into the curious tale that links the MP for Hampstead, Tulip Siddiq - the economic and anti-corruption minister - with the fall of a powerful and possibly autocratic Bangladeshi deposed leader, Sheikh Hasina, her aunt.
What are the charges being levelled? And has Siddiq been transparent with everything she's acquired and admitted between them? We talk to the Sunday Times journalist who's just returned from the Bangladeshi prime ministerial palace, Gabriel Pogrund.
Later, the LA fires have been doused in misinformation. What criticism of the government in California is legit? And what has just been made up by fantasists for political gain?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.5 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.2 | Will you resign? |
| 0:14.4 | Do you let's sleep. Will you resign today? |
| 0:16.3 | Good morning. |
| 0:17.2 | What are your campaign doing in your arms, palace? |
| 0:20.0 | Good morning. |
| 0:20.7 | How can you do that anti-corruption minister when you're going to call for a corruption? |
| 0:23.9 | Are you history's unluckyest anti-corruption minister? |
| 0:27.6 | What did Kirstama say to you today? |
| 0:30.7 | Those are journalists outside the house of the Labour Minister Tulick City in North London, in Hampstead. |
| 0:37.1 | And they're asking if she's going to resign. |
| 0:39.7 | She's already been called on to resign by the Conservative leader, Kemi Badernock, and her shadow |
| 0:46.3 | Chancellor, Mel Stride. And today we're going to dig a bit further into what has actually |
| 0:52.4 | gone on in Tuleik Sadiq Sadiq's past, in her family connections, |
| 0:57.0 | that has prompted these kinds of questions to the corruption minister. |
| 1:02.0 | It is a really remarkable tale that somehow links |
| 1:07.0 | Tulip Sadiq, an MP in Camden, with the former Prime Minister of Bangladesh and even |
| 1:15.3 | Vladimir Putin. And the question which is now circling around Sadiq and Kiyoshtama is whether |
| 1:22.3 | the anti-corruption minister can stay in place when potentially she's being accused of corruption herself. |
| 1:30.2 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:34.2 | The news agents. |
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