MADRID 29 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Minister of Transport of the United Kingdom, Louise Haigh, presented her resignation this Friday after confessing that she lied to the Police about the alleged theft of her mobile phone in 2013, which has caused the first change in the Government’s front line. by Keir Starmer.
Haigh initially went to the police to report that her cell phone and other objects had been stolen during a robbery, but she ended up locating the terminal in her house “some time later,” as she later confessed. In 2014, he pleaded guilty to false testimony, as Sky News and ‘The Times’ have now revealed.
The outgoing minister has alleged that everything had been a “mistake”, because she should have notified the company of the discovery, and that in no case did she seek to take advantage. In a letter to Starmer, he stated in any case that, regardless of the details of the event itself, he understands that it “inevitably” can be a “distraction.”
The prime minister has accepted the resignation in a public letter in which he thanks him for his commitment to the Executive’s “ambitious agenda” on transport and wishes his colleague, who has held a seat since 2015, “the best” for the future. in the House of Commons.
The replacement has not been long in coming and Starmer has confirmed Heidi Alexander, who until now was Secretary of State for Justice, as the new minister. He has experience as head of Transport at London City Council, where the Labor Party also governs.
The conservatives, for their part, have applauded the resignation announced this Friday but point out criticism towards Starmer, since they understand that he already knew that the outgoing minister had been condemned when he appointed him to the Government. Therefore, the opposition has asked the prime minister to “explain his obvious lapse in judgment to the British people.”