Tulip Siddiq: Improving the woeful diversity of Westminster

When the fight for election in one of Britain’s most marginal seats gets tough, Tulip Siddiq sometimes has to reassure her family, most of whom were assassinated 40 years ago. In 1975, soldiers stormed her mother’s home in Bangladesh and killed everyone. Their target: Siddiq’s grandfather, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the country’s first leader. In an attempt to cut off his bloodline, they also shot dead his three young sons, but his two daughters were on holiday in Germany. They had to be wo