Louise Haigh has resigned as Transport Secretary after she admitted pleading guilty to misleading the police a decade ago. Ms Haigh appeared at Camberwell Green Magistrates’ Court in 2014, six months before her election as an MP,

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

Louise Haigh says she did not gain from the ‘genuine mistake’ that led to the conviction months before she was elected in 2015