The British minister responsible for financial services and fighting corruption resigned on Tuesday after weeks of questions over her financial ties to her aunt Sheikh Hasina, ousted last year as prime minister of Bangladesh.

Tulip Siddiq has denied any wrongdoing after being named in a corruption probe into her aunt, former Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina.

Anti-corruption minister Tulip Siddiq has resigned from the government, saying questions about her links with her aunt’s political party in Bangladesh had become a ‘distraction’. Pressure had been building on the Labour MP for days,