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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Eleni Courea Political correspondent

Louise Haigh resigns as transport secretary after admitting phone offence

Louise Haigh
Louise Haigh, who resigned as transport secretary on Friday. Photograph: Wiktor Szymanowicz/Rex/Shutterstock

Louise Haigh has resigned as transport secretary only 12 hours after it emerged she had been convicted of fraud over a missing work phone.

Haigh quit the cabinet with a letter to Keir Starmer saying that “whatever the facts of the matter, this issue will inevitably be a distraction from delivering the work of this government”.

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