“Worn Out, Sleazy Government!” Louise Haigh Resigns After Fraud Conviction Emerges

Louise Haigh has resigned as Transport Secretary after it emerged she pleaded guilty to a criminal offence related to incorrectly telling police that a work mobile phone was stolen in 2013.
It is understood the incident was disclosed to Sir Keir Starmer when she joined the shadow cabinet.
In a letter to the Prime Minister, she said she is “totally committed to our political project” but believes “it will be best served by my supporting you from outside Government”.
Talk’s Mike Graham discusses the story with Conservative Home columnist Harry Phibbs.
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[@neilmorris6046]

Labour need to stand down disgrace

[@Maz-31]

I'm sick of this government .. they need to go NOW!

[@rb1062]

The worst quality 'government' we've ever had.

[@NeilHughes-ti6pz]

Starmer should resign over gross manifesto Fraud.

[@4321ort]

Everyday,more sleeze,labour imploding,it's embarrassing

[@jancaulfield3549]

Not mention Sue gray supposedly being independent when she investigated Boris

[@MS-eo6mn]

Do these MP,s not get vetted like the rest of us.

[@leonardomonno3648]

Clearly you forget the say : my word is my bond 😂😂😂

[@markfox4970]

On&on goes the "sleaze"---the list never ends!

[@MikeHunt45]

Louise "Phones 4 U" Haigh

[@richardhodds7812]

I am so suprised about Louise Haigh, I would have thought having a criminal record disqualifies you for stand for Parliament, Obviously not! But I think it should.

[@petertyrrell1847]

Loads of Labour MPs and councillors have got criminal convictions hanging in their closets

[@fayhart6355]

All must go

[@VICERACTRIVOX]

If ‘Louise Haigh’ Needs Support, She Can Always: “Phone A Friend!”

[@MrPaulculkin]

If Reeves can lie about her past...... Hopefully Rachel will follow suit. 😂

[@ruthcollins2841]

Unfortunately she's only resigned her cabinet post NOT as MP!🤦‍♀️👎

[@BarnabyDuke]

Surely to goodness, Starmer makes Boris look like the archangel Gabriel

[@gurglejug627]

Rats running the grain store

[@margaretthompson1258]

Never heard that one priceless 😂

[@brundelfly1]

How is it that my pretty mundane Finance job is dependent upon a clear DBS check and Credit Assessment yet a woman overseeing a £32 billion annual budget and a Parliamentary expenses account is under no such requirement? Also, why is the resignation of a television personality leading the newspaper headlines over a Minister of State having to resign due to being a convicted criminal?

[@kms6465]

Let's have Liz Truss back.

[@alanhaward4922]

Get the lier kicked out as a mp. By election now.

[@MrPaulculkin]

They were blaming Thatcher for decades. They now blame the Tories. Anything to distract attention from their own ineptitude.

[@shakkattack]

SLEAZY LABOUR ROTTEN TO THE CORE ❗️🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🇬🇧🙏🏻🫡

[@F3arlessWarriorMindset]

When is the number 1 sleaze gonna own up, and declare whether he’s in close proximity with any sausage?

[@dj6259]

Vote of no confidence in starmer and the Labour Party, not fit for purpose.

[@guitardee1]

Can’t keep blaming the tories? 30 years on the ANC in South Africa are still blaming apartheid. And please note the very expensive suits and cars the politicians have

[@66kbm]

Does she loose her MP;s seat. If not, why not?

[@RichardAshton-zn5ov]

Lose

[@mrradman2986]

Those in her constituency should start a recall petition.

[@Orcbotbasher]

​@@RichardAshton-zn5ovScore

[@nigelmorley5414]

her constituents ought to see to that

[@disband_thebbc5933]

The Recall of MPs Act 2015 is the relevant legislation.

[@suestewart-g4f]

Is Sue Gray still on the pay roll ?? Are we paying for her ?

[@SusanDean-n7x]

Is she still working for them ? Disappeared apart from coffee with Ali

[@MichaelCrazyLEDs]

Sanction government

[@billwest4570]

They all handle the truth recklessly.

[@Navidain]

MP's Resignation letter, or as everyone else calls them, Get out of jail free card.

[@josiecoleman8986]

Another Westminster thief

[@humptydumphty]

Rachel and Sue has better sponsors than transport secretery.

[@MJ-tg7wv]

She needs to resign as an MP - she is not an Honourable Member. She is a fraudster - and it is not the size of the crime that matters - it goes to character You are known by the company you keep and Birds of a feather flock together Having been a minister, does she now get an enhanced pension????

[@SusanDean-n7x]

Best not, criminal

[@Micky-u9k]

Have you noticed the similarities of this government and the USA

[@PatriciaUmpherville]

What a shambles

[@Gerald-m8w8v]

Yet keeps her 80k a year job

[@Slademanxx]

Is there any honest mps ?, Answers on a postage stamp please.

[@musicbruv]

I am beginning to think that to be a cabinet minister you need to have a criminal past. Or at the very least a dodgy past.

[@accadoza]

Labour good for nothing tax tax tax that's all they know

[@pearlford121]

And inviting immigrants into the country willy nilly.

[@captricharddee3634]

Louise Haigh quits? Ok, what about the rest of The Labour Party?

[@WallydarlingEDIT]

Party of sleeze 😂😂😂 remember the Labour Party saying that 😂😂😂 my god they are a joke get them out!!

[@lesleylamy]

I agree she had to go , but sleeze no that belongs to tories and reform.

[@pauljshields123]

​@@lesleylamy😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@lesleylamy]

@@WallydarlingEDIT do you want them out for more of sleeze with the tories and reform

[@kmac8854]

@@lesleylamydelusional

[@kevinjenkins6172]

At every opportunity vote Reform

[@shakkattack]

🇬🇧🙏🏻🇬🇧🙏🏻🇬🇧🙏🏻🇬🇧🙏🏻🇬🇧🙏🏻🫡

[@ShyTalks-d8b]

For why, child, for why?

[@maccagrabme]

Anyone who doesn't know why we need to vote Reform is completely clueless, you don't have to like Reform but at least acknowledge that there is a very valid reason why people like us want to vote for them rather than try to make out we are all dumb, uneducated, misinformed, FR etc. You know why we are voting for Reform.

[@kevinjenkins6172]

@@ShyTalks-d8b no more pink haired retards for a start

[@ShyTalks-d8b]

@@maccagrabme Anyone who doesn't answer my question is completely clueless.

[@bernicewhiteley1921]

Will there by a by-election?

[@philbamford6957]

All the more reason to sign the petition now to stop this lot.

[@skipmole612]

Good. This is starting to come home to roost. Obvs the pay rise she gave to the train drivers will have to be withdrawn.

[@g.pmoore4293]

Now ask Boris Johnson where his phone went .

[@WAC-qh6mk]

Yet again the labour party and a severe lack of moral compass

[@jimhallinsn1023]

I was lead to believe that Liebore are morally incorruptible. 😂😂🎉

[@annsmith495]

Did the “mugging” incident ever take place? Or was that just a part of the total fabrication which she has continued with in her resignation letter?

[@jamesburke527]

Do we get a by election? whats happened to Manchester MP assualt charge is he resigning??????

[@dovetonsturdee7033]

No, but he is being given martial arts lessons. Funded by the taxpayer, of course.

[@disband_thebbc5933]

Mike Amesburry is the MP in question and I believe it was a Cheshire constituency. The Recall of MPs Act 2015 is the relevant legislation. One by one.

[@pearlford121]

Probably wont get anything done about him at all. They all get away with murder!!

[@barracuda008l4]

She is still an MP she must call a by election.... criminals cannot be MPs BY LAW

[@750triton]

Dawn Butler?

[@kumasenlac5504]

Criminals can be MPs - until they're unmasked.

[@andrewwelsh6638]

She claims she was mugged for the phone, but is that true or not?

[@peteresher4580]

Dishonest crooks.

[@suzanneevans4157]

The pressure needs to be kept on Rachel Thieves from accounts. She can't get away with it. Get all of them OUT

[@Ianusher-q9m]

This corrupt labour government should be in the circus 🤬

[@andyniblock43]

She turned the phone on, who turned it off ?

[@jenniferbarry5887]

An investagative journalist needs to do a deep dive into Morgan McSweeny and the Unions there is an increasingly bad smell around Labour.

[@joginns778]

Why doesn't reeves do the right thing and go as well for living about her CV and STARMER for being a complete liar as for LAMMY he hasn't got a clue about his job😅😅,

[@tinajohnson-bv9yx]

And Raynor about lying about her council house sale

[@riolewis4713]

this government was not voted in it got in by default. we have to live with it for the next 5 yrs, lets hope we can get through it.

[@GeorgeCoyle-y2r]

Let’s hope Reeves is next then Starmer before Christmas

[@gftjghdt3582]

Good, but apparently, kier knew this, so why employ her in that role but just goes to show don't matter what party in charge the public keep getting poor politicians in charge

[@JulieMalone-oy1ll]

The labs are the mess, a big bloody mess

[@tech10k14]

She's a strong, independent woman... She don't need no morals.. REEEE misogyny! hate-crimes! 😄

[@JEZ-pk5vp]

Her 'Bus Spotting' days are over.

[@Bluejohn]

The petition seems to be grinding to a halt, maybe this latest scandal will give it a bit of a surge

[@johnboro64]

She should resign from being an MP, they’re meant to set examples

[@airwolf8915]

They talk about 'net zero' but they they are clocking up a lot of air miles with their global jaunts.

[@leonardomonno3648]

Will she still draw be allocated a pension based on her having been a former minister?

[@markscript5746]

Surely even the MSM cannot paper over this

[@clivemarriott7749]

I feel like a soothsayer because whatever the labour government accuse others of doing i can predict they are doing themselves.

[@ianc4681]

The absolute state of mp's these days😮 I expect her face is as red as her hair right now.....

[@malcolmshaw2609]

I heard Starmer already knew about it 😳

[@Spriteside]

He's finally sacked someone. But RACHEL MUST GO.

[@barbaraaimson2100]

Like he knew about southport

[@cnursery]

If she doesn't resign as an MP the Labour party needs to withdraw the whip. Either way, there needs to be a by-election. Vote Reform.

[@lesleylamy]

No they are even worse for sleeze.

[@disband_thebbc5933]

I don't know what her constituency is but the Recall of MPs Act 2015 is the relevant legislation.

[@kmac8854]

@@lesleylamy Reform is the only political party that are properly challenging the government, they have identified the lies and spin from Labour and the Tories and brought it to the attention of the public. If you are happy to continue with the traitorous Labour government that’s up to you.

[@barbaraallen435]

At least she has resigned . I think all people who stand for any political office or official appointment should be vetted .

[@paulfensome1404]

Harry sounds dumber than a box of Rocks He cannot string a Sentence together , God give me Strength

[@garyb455]

At least she has higher standards than the liar Reeves

[@jeanmclarnon7724]

There a total disgrace

[@geraldmorson4522]

First of many

[@RichardGray-p3u]

If she had stayed she have been the next PM 💔🇬🇧

[@domingodesantaclara1130]

And she's one of the more competent Labour ministers.

[@sallyyeomans3456]

Was😊

[@dovetonsturdee7033]

Didn't she try to wreck a major dockland investment a few weeks ago?

[@Johnarry]

Not sure about that.😅

[@692mhw]

Just shows again how the UK's political class are completely morally bankrupt.

[@TheBluePuffin]

Angela Rayner, Rachel Reeves and Louise Haigh are all unfit for office. One did the decent thing and resigned, the others refuse to do so. I like none of them for their politics and behaviour but have some respect for Louise Haigh for at least doing the right thing (eventually).

[@realjohn4064]

Stupid and cooked. Why would you lie to get an upgraded phone that you covet and then re start using the old one? Didn't she realize her employer at the time, Aviva, would notice and report it to the police? D'oh.

[@kumasenlac5504]

They started sleazy (of course, they're politicians) but it shows a worrying lack of stamina if they're worn out already...

[@bernardwarr4187]

Tell me one thing the shambles has achieved?

[@galboy7899]

Was it brexit or the tories that created her problems?

[@childrensworkshops]

Let´s hear it then for Ex Tory MP Neil Parrish - who after watchng ´tractor Porn´in Parliament resigned from govt...YAY!

[@raymondgreenwood9617]

In the lady's resignation letter she says she remains committed to 'our political project'. What is this? I would like to know.

[@lloydburdis1960]

Uneducated, incompetent with cupboards full of rattling skeletons, that is every member of the cabinet including Starmer, this is just the start many more to follow wait until after the 6th January Oh what Fun ! can’t wait 😂

[@djs356]

Starmer has a LOT of skeletons in his closset !!

[@lw1zfog]

oh dear, how surprising ! 😂

[@bumberClart1000]

Only another 4 years to go. How you gonna do it? 😮

[@Dave-qy1fn]

1, pleased sign the petition 2, please vote reform. We trusted labour and Tory's long enough and enough is enough we have to take the risk and vote Reform we now have nothing to lose

[@richardtodd6559]

Usual poor quality mp …or maybe she was just doing what all the others have done before her…

[@SteveScott-sk5ly]

You call Lammy the Lamb about talking funny, this bloke Harry Phibbs, OMG I couldn't listen to him for 10 minutes

[@Wendy-Ma]

No hardworking taxpayer would behave like the politicians do. Its beyond shocking behaviour.

Not even a sophisticated fraud..............put her reputation on the line for a second hand phone FFS...............

[@roses9339]

Can they get kicked out???????????🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔. Cheers Rosemary Western Australia 74yrs

[@MarkMcGuinness-k4d]

Why has the King not stepped in? Come on Charlie or there'll be no Kingdom to be head of when its William's turn. GET LABOUR OUT.

[@DitchUK]

Both women are fraudsters and both as bad as each other. Anyone else doing such crimes get it on their paperwork...

[@johnf3885]

She'll be able to spend more time with her hairdresser.

[@ben31uk]

Two tier lying keir