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Transport Secretary Louise Haigh resigns: 

Louise Haigh has resigned as transport secretary after it emerged she pleaded guilty to a fraud offence a decade ago.

She has admitted telling police in 2013 she had lost her work mobile phone in a mugging, but later found it had not been taken.

She was given a conditional discharge by magistrates, following the incident which happened before she became an MP.

Full story: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxy1kp73y9o

Pretty big blow for Starmer, as she's been leading on a lot of key legislation, including yesterday's vision for integrated transport announcement.

(29 Nov 2024, 10:51 am)Adrian wrote [ -> ]Transport Secretary Louise Haigh resigns: 


Pretty big blow for Starmer, as she's been leading on a lot of key legislation, including yesterday's vision for integrated transport announcement.

With claims of fraud circulating, it makes you wonder whether or not she had an active Railmiles account.

(29 Nov 2024, 5:31 pm)MurdnunoC wrote [ -> ]With claims of fraud circulating, it makes you wonder whether or not she had an active Railmiles account.

Not appropriate to this thread. Please think twice before you reply to a thread like this.

What a shameful row. Louise Haigh was mugged, mistakenly reported her work phone as missing, later found it and turned it on which alerted the police, and then was charged with filing a false report. She made zero material gain from this. Ridiculous.