Tulip Siddique has been the Labor MP for Hampstead and Highgate, previously Hampstead and Kilburn, since 2015.
When Labor won power in July, he was appointed Economic Secretary to the Treasury and City Minister, responsible for the UK’s financial services sector.
She is the niece of Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh’s longest-serving prime minister, who was ousted by a pro-democracy coup earlier this year.
He has now been named in an investigation into claims his family embezzled almost £4bn from the country’s infrastructure projects.
Sources close to him termed the allegations as “trumped-up charges”.
Siddique’s father was a university professor in Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, and his mother was granted political asylum in Britain as Sheikh Hasina’s teenage sister.
They met and married in London, and later moved their family – Siddique has an older brother and a younger sister – to Hampstead.
Raised as a Muslim, Siddique said the family “embraced multicultural Britain… [local] The Jewish community”.
As a child, he met Nelson Mandela, Bill Clinton and Mother Teresa, and his family was invited to the White House.
His grandfather Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was the first president of Bangladesh. During a military coup in 1975, his house in Dhaka was attacked by soldiers and he and most of his family were killed.
Siddique’s mother and aunt survived because they were abroad.
Siddique joined the Labor Party at the age of 16, later citing the NHS and caring for her disabled father as the main reasons.
She cites former cabinet minister Barbara Castle as her political hero, and her mother and aunt as “two very strong feminists”.
Before politics, she worked for Amnesty International, Save the Children and the Greater London Authority.
By 2010, she was working with him. Ed Miliband’s successful campaign for the Labor leadershipAlso spending time as a special adviser to former cabinet minister Tessa Jowell.
She was also elected to Camden Council in North London. After former Oscar-winning actress Glenda Jackson announced her resignation as an MP, Siddique was selected as the Labor Party’s parliamentary candidate for the Hampstead and Kilburn seat.
Elected to Parliament at the 2015 general election, Siddique was one of 36 Labor MPs who Nominated Jeremy Corbyn for party leadership.But he supported Andy Burnham in that election.
She will be re-elected with huge majorities in 2017, 2019 and 2024.
Appointed shadow education minister in 2016, he resigned from the front bench three months later to vote against triggering Brexit.
Siddique is perhaps best known for campaigning. The release of her ally, British-Iranian citizen Nazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeHe was detained in Iran for almost six years.
In 2017, while campaigning for Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s release, Siddique was asked in an interview by Channel 4 News why she had not challenged her aunt, who is accused of leading an authoritarian regime in Bangladesh. They were alleged to have committed human rights violations.
A row ensued, with the programme’s editor complaining that his behavior towards the pregnant producer was “threatening”, and Siddique apologized..
He got married in 2013. Two days before giving birth to her second child in 2019, she Attended the Commons in a wheelchair. For a crucial Brexit vote. Later that month, following a rule change, she became the first MP to vote by proxy.