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

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Ms Haigh admitted she pleaded guilty to an offence connected with incorrectly telling police that a work mobile phone was stolen in 2013 .

She said she discovered "some time later" that the phone had not been taken.

In her resignation letter this morning , she described it as a "mistake" but said it will be a distraction from delivering on the work of this government.

Sir Keir Starmer thanked her for delivering the Government's ambitious transport agenda.

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