Louise Haigh resigns as UK transport secretary after admitting phone offence
Louise Haigh resigns as UK transport secretary after admitting phone offence
Haigh tells PM she is ‘totally committed’ but leaves role after incorrectly telling police a work mobile phone was stolen in 2013
Kind of a bummer as it was a very minor offence and she's been making all the right noises as Transport Sec, but she's right to resign: Cabinet members should be above this kind of thing. Can't have a return to the corruption of the Conservatives
punished for something ten years ago which received the lowest possible punishment meanwhile james mcmurdock assaults his girlfriend and keeps his job because "christian forgiveness"
The fact that she has resigned suggests it's not just a "minor offence" and there's potentially more to it that we don't know about.
Officially, the reason is she should specifically have informed the Government about it, i.e., the problem isn't the offence (minor or not) per se but the process. However, you may be right as Chris Curtis suggests there was more to it:
It's also understood she was unaware of any investigation by her former employer, Aviva, involving more than one mobile phone, as reported by The Times. Haigh’s team have not denied this, but have not been drawn on it either.
The implication in the article was that this had happened more than once (phones being stolen/going missing) but it was only one occasion that this involved the police and the admission of fraud.