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The 38-year-old medic, who was struck off as an NHS doctor, works in a hospital in the city of Idlib, the headquarters of the rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS).

By ABUL TAHER Published: | Updated: A UK doctor once accused of kidnap has emerged as the main English-speaking cheerleader for the Islamist rebels' onslaught on President Assad's regime in Syria.

The body representing 190,000 doctors has asked external investigators to probe Dr Mary McCarthy, who has posted hundreds of tweets on the Gaza conflict since Hamas' attack on Israel.

City Minister Tulip Siddiq - whose job role sees her responsible for clamping out corruption in Britain's financial sector - is being investigated for the staggering embezzlement in her native Bangladesh.

The footage shows Ms Siddiq visiting the Kremlin as part of an entourage led by her aunt Sheikh Hasina Wazed and appears to contradict previous claims that it was a 'family' occasion.

City Minister Tulip Siddiq is being investigated over claims that she and four family members embezzled £4 billion through a nuclear power plant deal in Bangladesh.

Ms Siddiq was repeatedly asked if she was given the two-bedroom apartment, now worth £700,000, previously owned by a property developer connected to her Bangladeshi dictator aunt.

Ahmed Shayan Rahman, who is chairman of the King's British Asian Trust and has a decades-long relationship with Tulip Siddiq's family, has had his accounts in Bangladesh frozen

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In the end, perhaps the only surprise was why the Prime Minister allowed his scandal-hit friend Tulip Siddiq to wither so long before her inevitable pruning.