Louise Haigh has quit as transport secretary following details of a past conviction for fraud being revealed. She has admitted that, a decade ago, she told police she had lost her work mobile phone in a mugging,

Louise Haigh had been the youngest member of the Cabinet before it came to light that she had an old conviction for fraud by misrepresentation

Louise Haigh has resigned as Transport Secretary after she admitted pleading guilty to misleading the police a decade ago. Ms Haigh appeared at Camberwell Green Magistrates’ Court in 2014, six months before her election as an MP,