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,

UK Transport Secretary Louise Haigh resigned from Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s cabinet after it emerged that she received a criminal conviction for incorrectly telling police that a work phone was stolen during a mugging in 2013.