Heidi Alexander named new transport secretary after Louise Haigh's resignation over mobile phone guilty plea Heidi Alexander has been appointed the new transport secretary after Louise Haigh stepped down.

A minister in UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Cabinet has resigned after it emerged that she received a criminal conviction for incorrectly telling police that a work phone was stolen during a mugging in 2013.

UK transport secretary Louise Haigh has resigned after admitting on Thursday that she had pleaded guilty to a criminal offence over a missing mobile phone. “Whatever the facts of the matter, this issue will inevitably be a distraction from delivering on the work of this government,