Heidi Alexander has replaced Louise Haigh as transport secretary after it was discovered the latter has a fraud conviction going back to an incident in 2013. The wording of her resignation letter suggests that Prime Minister Keir Starmer may have known about the conviction prior to her appointment to the cabinet, prompting the opposition to accuse him of an 'obvious failure of judgement'.
The conviction, which is now spent, was the result of a 'mistake' according to Haigh.
