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Tulip Siddiq
Tulip Rizwana Siddiq FRSA (born 16 September 1982) is a British-Bangladeshi politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hampstead and Highgate, previously Hampstead and Kilburn, since 2015. She served as Economic Secretary to the Treasury and City Minister from 9 July 2024 until her resignation on 14 January 2025.
She is a niece of the former Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina. On 13 April 2025, Bangladesh issued an arrest warrant for Siddiq as part of investigations into corruption during Sheikh Hasina's premiership, and on 1 December 2025 she was convicted in absentia and sentenced to two years' imprisonment and a fine.
Tulip Siddiq was born on 16 September 1982 in Sutton, London. She is the daughter of academic Prof. Shafique Ahmed Siddique, and politician Sheikh Rehana, who gained political asylum in the UK as a teenager. The two met when Shafique Siddique was doing his PhD, and married in Kilburn in 1980. Siddiq was born in St Helier Hospital in St Helier, London, and has an elder brother, Radwan Mujib Siddiq Bobby, and a younger sister, Azmina Siddiq. When she was 15, the family moved to Hampstead. She was raised a Muslim and has said that her "family embraced multicultural Britain".
She attended Scholastica, Dhaka, Bangladesh, The Royal School, Hampstead, and Mill Hill School before completing her undergraduate degree in English Literature at University College London and then a master's degree at King's College London. In September 2011, she completed a second master's degree in Politics, Policy and Government.
Her maternal grandfather is Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding leader, second prime minister of Bangladesh, and its first president. Her mother's elder sister, Sheikh Hasina, was prime minister of Bangladesh from 1996 to 2001 and from 2009 until her resignation amid the July Revolution in 2024.
In 2017, Siddiq said she was British, not Bangladeshi, but Bangladeshi officials stated that she held Bangladeshi citizenship, having had multiple Bangladeshi passports, an ID card and with her name in the voter registry. Siddiq's lawyer denied these Bangladeshi documents existed, and suggested they were fabrications. However, a collaborated investigation by Prothom Alo daily in Dhaka and The Times in London documented evidence revealing that Siddiq held a national identity card (NID) as a Bangladeshi citizen, was registered to vote in Bangladesh, and also held a Bangladeshi passport.
At the age of 16, Siddiq joined the Labour Party. Her father had a stroke, which left him disabled and unable to speak for five years. She has cited the National Health Service and the care her disabled father received as the reason why she joined. She identified former Labour minister Barbara Castle as her political heroine, and has described her mother and maternal aunt as "two very strong feminists".
In a 2006 by-election, Siddiq stood unsuccessfully for Camden Council. In the 2010 local government elections, she became the first female Bangladeshi councillor for Camden Council, for Regent's Park ward, where she was Cabinet Member for Culture and Communities until May 2014.
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Tulip Siddiq
Tulip Rizwana Siddiq FRSA (born 16 September 1982) is a British-Bangladeshi politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hampstead and Highgate, previously Hampstead and Kilburn, since 2015. She served as Economic Secretary to the Treasury and City Minister from 9 July 2024 until her resignation on 14 January 2025.
She is a niece of the former Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina. On 13 April 2025, Bangladesh issued an arrest warrant for Siddiq as part of investigations into corruption during Sheikh Hasina's premiership, and on 1 December 2025 she was convicted in absentia and sentenced to two years' imprisonment and a fine.
Tulip Siddiq was born on 16 September 1982 in Sutton, London. She is the daughter of academic Prof. Shafique Ahmed Siddique, and politician Sheikh Rehana, who gained political asylum in the UK as a teenager. The two met when Shafique Siddique was doing his PhD, and married in Kilburn in 1980. Siddiq was born in St Helier Hospital in St Helier, London, and has an elder brother, Radwan Mujib Siddiq Bobby, and a younger sister, Azmina Siddiq. When she was 15, the family moved to Hampstead. She was raised a Muslim and has said that her "family embraced multicultural Britain".
She attended Scholastica, Dhaka, Bangladesh, The Royal School, Hampstead, and Mill Hill School before completing her undergraduate degree in English Literature at University College London and then a master's degree at King's College London. In September 2011, she completed a second master's degree in Politics, Policy and Government.
Her maternal grandfather is Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding leader, second prime minister of Bangladesh, and its first president. Her mother's elder sister, Sheikh Hasina, was prime minister of Bangladesh from 1996 to 2001 and from 2009 until her resignation amid the July Revolution in 2024.
In 2017, Siddiq said she was British, not Bangladeshi, but Bangladeshi officials stated that she held Bangladeshi citizenship, having had multiple Bangladeshi passports, an ID card and with her name in the voter registry. Siddiq's lawyer denied these Bangladeshi documents existed, and suggested they were fabrications. However, a collaborated investigation by Prothom Alo daily in Dhaka and The Times in London documented evidence revealing that Siddiq held a national identity card (NID) as a Bangladeshi citizen, was registered to vote in Bangladesh, and also held a Bangladeshi passport.
At the age of 16, Siddiq joined the Labour Party. Her father had a stroke, which left him disabled and unable to speak for five years. She has cited the National Health Service and the care her disabled father received as the reason why she joined. She identified former Labour minister Barbara Castle as her political heroine, and has described her mother and maternal aunt as "two very strong feminists".
In a 2006 by-election, Siddiq stood unsuccessfully for Camden Council. In the 2010 local government elections, she became the first female Bangladeshi councillor for Camden Council, for Regent's Park ward, where she was Cabinet Member for Culture and Communities until May 2014.
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