British Prime Minister Keir Starmer appointed a new transport minister on Friday after the youngest member of his cabinet quit when it was revealed she pled guilty a decade ago to an offence in connection with misleading the police, APA reports citing Reuters.
Just hours after Louise Haigh resigned as transport minister after admitting that she had a minor criminal offence relating to a mobile phone she wrongly said had been stolen, Starmer appointed Heidi Alexander, who served as the deputy mayor for transport in London between 2018 and 2021.
It was a swift replacement to try to draw a line under the resignation, yet another blow to the Labour leader, who has seen his Labour Party's approval ratings plunge since it won a July election, over a raft of tax rises that have targeted businesses, farmers and pensioners.
Haigh said in a letter to Starmer that she had told police she had lost a mobile phone during a "terrifying" mugging on a night out in 2013, only to discover later that the phone was still at her home.
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