UK transport secretary quits over decade-old cellphone fraud case
British Transport Minister Louise Haigh has resigned over a decade-old fraud conviction for claiming her cellphone was stolen.
Louise Haigh resigns as transport secretary over stolen phone fraud offence
Louise Haigh became the first minister to quit Sir Keir Starmer’s government in a blow to the prime minister. The transport secretary wrote to the prime minister tendering her resignation as transport secretary after admitting she was convicted for making a false report to police over a mobile phone being stolen 10 years ago.
UK Transport Secretary Louise Haigh Resigns Over Fraud Conviction
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.
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