Louise Haigh should refuse her £17,000 severance payout, a minister has suggested. The former transport secretary last Thursday resigned after admitting she pleaded guilty to misleading the police a decade ago.

Labour party’s Haigh was the youngest member of PM Keir Starmer’s cabinet when a decade-old fraud case resurfaced.

Louise Haigh has quit as transport secretary following details of a past conviction for fraud being revealed. She has admitted that, a decade ago, she told police she had lost her work mobile phone in a mugging,

Louise Haigh will receive thousands of pounds in severance pay after her resignation as transport secretary, No 10 has confirmed. Ms Haigh quit Sir Keir Starmer’s Cabinet last Thursday after she admitted pleading guilty to misleading the police a decade ago.

A Cabinet minister has said he does not know “who knew what when” in relation to the criminal conviction which saw Louise Haigh quit as transport secretary. Ms Haigh resigned on Friday after it emerged she had pleaded guilty to a criminal offence related to incorrectly telling police that a work mobile phone was stolen in 2013.

That’s exactly how Louise Haigh’s tenure as Transport Secretary for the UK government has ended. In a flurry of briefings to media on Thursday evening, sparked by a story in The Times, sources close to Haigh hurried to minimise the impact of a resurfaced conviction of Haigh 11 years ago.

Louise Haigh has resigned as transport secretary in a blazing scandal. It has come to light that she was convicted of fraud over a missing work phone a decade ago – a device she reported to police as stolen in a mugging only to be turned on in her presence later.

The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster told Trevor Phillips the issue of Louise Haigh was dealt with quickly. Ms Haigh quit as transport secretary after Sky News revealed she said she had her phone stolen when it had not been.