The current British Transport Minister, Louise Haigh, resigned this Friday from Keir Starmer’s Labor government after learning that in 2014 she had admitted an offense of giving false testimony to the police for having declared in 2013 that her work mobile phone had was stolen during a robbery. . , when he found it later.
The minister said in a letter to Starmer that while what happened was “an error” that was resolved without being penalized, she did not want it to be a distraction from the work of the Executive. Haigh assured that she remained committed to the Labor project and would support it as an MP in the House of Commons.
The decision by the politician, an MP since 2015, comes after Sky News and ‘The Times’ published on Thursday that in 2014 she had pleaded guilty in court to giving incorrect evidence to police about the theft a year ago earlier. , so the officers filed a complaint.
Given this confession, the court released her without any sanction, which is the minimum possible result, when we consider that the experience of being accused is sufficient, she explained. “I’m sorry to have to leave under these circumstances, but I’m proud of what we did. “I will continue to fight every day for the people of Sheffield Heeley, who I have been chosen to represent,” the youngest minister in history said in her letter.
The first resignation of the Starmer Labor government
In his response, the Prime Minister thanked him for his work aimed at “realizing the ambitious transport program of this government”, of which he highlighted the progress made in the renationalization of the railway system, one of the priorities of this executive. “I know you will still be able to make a great contribution in the future,” Starmer told Haigh, 37.
This resignation is the first by a minister in this government since the Labor Party came to power after winning the July 4 elections by an absolute majority, which ended 14 years of conservative rule.
