Sheffield MP and UK transport secretary was destined to implement a core Labour policy by nationalising railways but she quit suddenly last week
The resignation last Thursday night of the UK’s transport secretary, Louise Haigh, emerged the next morning – on the same day that the
‘I don’t know where I am going’: Manchester police criticised for mass expulsion of Traveller youths on trains She said she later discovered her work phone had not, in fact, been stolen but had been in a drawer at home all along. Haigh has admitted she made a mistake by not immediately informing police she had found it; Aviva had by then already issued her with a new handset.
A year later in 2015 she became Labour MP for Sheffield Heeley, and quickly made a name for herself as a rising star in the party. When Starmer became leader he appointed her to his shadow cabinet in the Northern Ireland brief. Her allies said she told him about the phone mugging incident and her subsequent conviction in full when she joined the shadow cabinet.
Then news of her fraud conviction emerged last week. Her critics said she didn’t declare it when she was appointed to government, but it seems she didn’t have to as it was classed as spent. Starmer had apparently known about it all along, but the public didn’t. Somebody briefed the Times newspaper and Sky News and Haigh quit hours later.
Haigh previously ruffled feathers in Number 10 in October by calling ferries operator P&O a “rogue operator” that she personally boycotted, and encouraged others to do the same. P&O’s parent company DP World was apoplectic and threatened to boycott the government’s flagship investment summit. It was dissuaded only after Starmer intervened.
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