Louise Haigh resigns as UK transport secretary after admitting phone offence
by Eleni Courea Political correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#6SJXP)
Haigh tells PM she is totally committed' but leaves role after incorrectly telling police a work mobile phone was stolen in 2013
Louise Haigh has resigned as transport secretary only 12 hours after it emerged she had been convicted of fraud over a missing work phone.
Haigh quit the cabinet with a letter to Keir Starmer saying that whatever the facts of the matter, this issue will inevitably be a distraction from delivering the work of this government".
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