Transport Secretary Louise Haigh resigns after admitting misleading police

Louise Haigh has resigned arsenic Transport Secretary aft pleading blameworthy to a transgression offence.

She past nighttime admitted she pleaded blameworthy to an offence connected with incorrectly telling constabulary that a enactment mobile telephone was stolen successful 2013.

In a connection connected Thursday night, Ms Haigh said she discovered ‘some clip later’ that the telephone had not been taken.

In her resignation missive this morning, she described it arsenic a ‘mistake’ but said that ‘whatever the facts of the matter, this contented volition inevitably beryllium a distraction from delivering connected the enactment of this government.’

In a missive to the Prime Minister, she said she is ‘totally committed to our governmental project’ but believes ‘it volition beryllium champion served by my supporting you from extracurricular Government’.

‘I americium atrocious to permission nether these circumstances, but I instrumentality pridefulness successful what we person done.

I volition proceed to combat each time for the radical of Sheffield Heeley who I was archetypal and foremost elected to correspond and to guarantee that the remainder of our programme is delivered successful full,’ she wrote.

Sir Keir Starmer thanked Ms Haigh for her enactment to present the Government’s transport agenda.

On Thursday evening, Sky News and the Times paper reported that Ms Haigh had admitted an offence successful 2014 pursuing the incident. She had reported to constabulary the instrumentality was stolen erstwhile she was ‘mugged’ successful 2013.

Ms Haigh said she discovered ‘some clip later’ that the telephone had not been taken.

She said the substance was a ‘genuine mistake’ from which she ‘did not marque immoderate gain’, and that magistrates gave her the ‘lowest imaginable outcome’.

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