Transport Secretary Louise Haigh has quit her role just hours after it emerged she had previously been convicted of fraud.
In a letter to Sir Keir Starmer, the Sheffield Heeley MP said that the issue would “inevitably be a distraction from delivering on the work of this Government and the policies to which we are committed”.
Last night it was revealed that Haigh has pleaded guilty to fraud after she incorrectly told police that a work mobile phone was stolen in 2013.
Haigh has been Sheffield Heeley MP since 2015 and held a number of shadow ministerial and shadow cabinet roles before becoming Transport Secretary when Labour won the election in July. Before she entered politics she spent time as a special constable.
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