UK Cabinet member resigns over past phone fraud case
A member of the U.K. Cabinet has resigned after reports revealed she was convicted in a fraud case more than a decade ago. British Transport Secretary Louise Haigh submitted her resignation in a letter to Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Thursday,
Transport Secretary Louise Haigh resigns over mobile phone fraud offence
Sky News and the Times newspaper reported that Ms Haigh had admitted an offence in 2014 following the incident.
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Louise Haigh has resigned as transport secretary after admitting that she had pleaded guilty to a criminal offence over a mobile phone she had wrongly claimed was stolen a decade ago. It deprives the new government of a politician who had been one of its most dynamic ministers in the first five months in office.
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Louise Haigh has resigned as transport secretary after it emerged she pleaded guilty to a fraud offence a decade ago. Downing Street has named justice minister Heidi Alexander as her replacement. Haigh has admitted telling police in 2013 she had lost her work mobile phone in a mugging,
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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,
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