The Financial Times reported, external that the flat had been given to her by a person connected with the recently ousted Bangladeshi government.
In his letter to the PM, Sir Laurie says Siddiq “acknowledges that, over an extended period, she was unaware of the origins of her ownership of her flat in King’s Cross, despite having signed a Land Registry transfer form relating to the gift at the time”.
He says the MP “remained under the impression that her parents had given the flat to her, having purchased it from the previous owner”.
This had led to the public being “inadvertently misled” about the identity of the donor of the flat, added Sir Laurie.
According to the Mail on Sunday,, external in 2022 she had denied the flat was a gift and insisted her parents had bought it for her and had threatened the paper with legal action preventing publication of a story.
Labour sources subsequently told the newspaper the flat had been gifted to Siddiq by a property developer with alleged links to her aunt.
In his letter, Sir Laurie said this was an “unfortunate misunderstanding” which had led to Siddiq issuing a public correction of “the origins of her ownership after she became a minister”.
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