Louise Haigh will get severance pay for her time as transport secretary – unless she decides to opt out, Downing Street has said. Ms Haigh resigned on Friday after it emerged she had pleaded guilty to a criminal offence related to incorrectly telling police that a work mobile phone was stolen in 2013.

Louise Haigh will receive thousands of pounds in severance pay after her resignation as transport secretary, No10 has confirmed. Ms Haigh quit Sir Keir Starmer’s Cabinet last Thursday after she admitted pleading guilty to misleading the police a decade ago.

Labour party’s Haigh was the youngest member of PM Keir Starmer’s cabinet when a decade-old fraud case resurfaced.

Louise Haigh has quit as transport secretary following details of a past conviction for fraud being revealed. She has admitted that, a decade ago, she told police she had lost her work mobile phone in a mugging,

Louise Haigh had been the youngest member of the Cabinet before it came to light that she had an old conviction for fraud by misrepresentation