Transport Secretary Louise Haigh resigns after admitting conviction for misleading police

Louise Haigh, the Transport Secretary, has resigned after she admitted pleading guilty to misleading the police a decade ago. Ms Haigh appeared at Camberwell Green Magistrates’ Court in 2014, six months before her election as an MP, after making a false report to officers that her mobile phone had been stolen. She said she was “mugged while on a ni...