5 times Louise Haigh called for Conservatives to resign

Louise Haigh antecedently called connected Boris Johnson and Theresa May to resign (Image: Getty)

Keir Starmer's Transport Secretary Louise Haigh has admitted to pleading blameworthy to an offence successful 2014 aft incorrectly telling police that her mobile telephone was stolen.

Ms Haigh has described the incidental arsenic a "genuine mistake", but immoderate societal media commentators are calling for her resignation and citing her past of outspokenly calling connected different Parliamentarians to discontinue their roles arsenic a crushed to signifier what she preaches.

In the past decade, the MP for Sheffield Heeley has called connected her colleagues to resign nary little than 5 times, archetypal demanding that then-Prime Minister Theresa May measurement down successful 2017. "I deliberation Theresa May had a shocking campaign. I'm amazed that she's not resigned. Clearly she has to," she told Sheffield Live aft the June wide election.

She past contributed to the tide against then-Home Secretary Amber Rudd successful April 2018, telling BBC Radio Sheffield that she had "deliberately misled parliament" implicit targets for removing amerciable immigrants. "She has to go," Ms Haigh said. "If your lone excuse is gross incompetence past you cannot stay successful post."

Her astir vociferous calls were directed towards Boris Johnson aft the Partygate scandal, however. "This is simply a substance of spot and enactment and I don't deliberation that the antheral who acceptable the rules and asked the British radical to marque unimaginable sacrifices, and past is recovered to person repeatedly flouted them, tin stay successful post. We deliberation helium should resign," she told the BBC successful March 2022.

"He has intelligibly repeatedly lied to the House of Commons and to the British radical and the lone question helium should present reply is erstwhile helium volition resign," she aboriginal added connected LBC.

And, aboriginal that year, she posted connected X: "You can't marque the rules, past interruption the rules. You can't person 1 regularisation for yourself, and antithetic rules for everyone else. But present it's clip that the rules applied. Resign."

Ms Haigh besides accused Mr Johnson of "deceiving the police" successful the House of Commons successful 2019, suggesting helium had "seriously breached" nationalist spot by "politicising serving officers".

Speaking of her offence connected to a mendacious study to constabulary - which is present believed to beryllium spent - the Transport Secretary told Sky News: “In 2013 I was mugged portion connected a nighttime out. I was a young pistillate and the acquisition was terrifying.

“I reported it to the constabulary and gave them a database of what I believed had been taken – including a enactment mobile telephone that had been issued by my employer.

“Some clip aboriginal I discovered that the mobile successful question had not been taken. In the interim I had been issued with different enactment phone.

“The archetypal enactment instrumentality being switched connected triggered constabulary attraction and I was asked to travel successful for questioning. My solicitor advised maine not to remark during that interrogation and I regret pursuing that advice.

“The constabulary referred the substance to the CPS and I appeared earlier Southwark magistrates. Under the proposal of my solicitor I pleaded blameworthy – contempt the information this was a genuine mistake from which I did not marque immoderate gain.

“The magistrates accepted each of these arguments and gave maine the lowest imaginable result (a discharge) available.”

Louise Haigh was appointed Transport Secretary successful July (Image: Getty)

Nigel Huddleston, seat of the Conservative Party has said Keir Starmer has “serious questions” to reply astir the matter.

Mr Huddleston said: “These are highly concerning revelations astir the idiosyncratic liable for managing £30 cardinal of taxpayers’ money.

“Keir Starmer has superior questions to reply regarding what helium knew and erstwhile astir the idiosyncratic helium appointed arsenic Transport Secretary admitting to having misled the police.”