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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Richard Wheeler

Starmer declines to detail ‘further information’ that led to Haigh resignation

Sir Keir Starmer has ignored calls to provide further details on why Louise Haigh resigned as transport secretary over a fraud offence before she became an MP.

The Prime Minister declined to elaborate on what “further information came to light”, despite being repeatedly pressed by Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch to explain why he “knowingly appointed a convicted fraudster” to his Cabinet.

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