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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Ted Hennessey

Louise Haigh’s rise from young Labour MP to Transport Secretary

Louise Haigh in Downing Street carrying a red Government folder (Ben Whitley/PA) - (PA Wire)

Louise Haigh was once described as having “terrier-like intensity” after she was first elected as an MP for Sheffield Heeley in May 2015.

Then-House of Commons speaker John Bercow praised her for her campaigning against the closure of tax offices and the following year she was deemed by the Yorkshire Post to be the most hard-working of the new intake of MPs because of the volume of her parliamentary questions and speeches.

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