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Transport Secretary Louise Haigh resigns after mobile phone guilty plea 'mistake'

  • Transport Secretary Louise Haigh has resigned following a guilty plea regarding her mobile phone.
  • Haigh described her actions as a "genuine mistake" and acknowledged that she should have informed her employer immediately.
  • She stated that the issue would distract from the government's work, emphasizing the need to focus on important tasks.
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Louise Haigh, British Transport Minister, resigned due to a minor affair than 10 years ago. But is it right? Massimo Gramellini's Coffee

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British Transport Minister Louise Haigh has resigned after it emerged she pleaded guilty years ago to an offense relating to misleading police about a work mobile phone. It's a blow to Prime Minister Keir Starmer, comments CNBC.

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UK Transport Minister Louise Haigh presented her resignation this Friday after confessing that she lied to the police about the alleged theft of her mobile phone in 2013, which has led to the first change in Keir Starmer’s first line of government. Haigh initially went to the police to report that she had stolen her mobile phone and other items during a robbery, but ended up locating the terminal at her home “a while later,” as she later confess…

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The Telegraph broke the news in London, United Kingdom on Friday, November 29, 2024.
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