Louise Haigh’s resignation as the transport secretary is raising serious questions for Keir Starmer. The Labour MP quit suddenly on Friday morning, less than 12 hours after reports of her 2014 fraud conviction emerged.

When Louise Haigh offered train drivers a whopping 15 per cent pay rise in August, she boldly said she was fulfilling a promise to “move fast and fix things” such as the long-running strikes. Allies of Sir Keir Starmer,

Louise Haigh was already the first cabinet minister that Sir Keir Starmer publicly rebuked, over remarks about P&O Ferries last month. Now we have the ritual exchange of letters and the ritual blizzard of further questions. First, those letters and in particular the prime minister’s letter to Haigh, which is blunt in its brevity.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer appointed a new transport minister on Friday after the youngest member of his cabinet quit when it was revealed she pled guilty a decade ago to an offence in connection with misleading the police.

More information came to light’, No 10 sources claim, following transport secretary’s decision to resign on Friday morning

Transport Secretary Louise Haigh has admitted pleading guilty to a criminal offence relating to a police investigation over a mobile phone she claimed was stolen. She has admitted that, a decade ago, she told police she had lost her work mobile phone in a mugging, but later found it had not been taken.

Heidi Alexander has been appointed the new Transport Secretary following Louise Haigh’s resignation this morning. The MP for Swindon South had been serving as a justice minister until her promotion. She previously worked as Sadiq Khan’s deputy mayor for transport mayor between 2018 and 2021.