LONDON (AP) — British Transport Minister Louise Haigh resigned on Friday over a decade-old fraud conviction for claiming her cellphone had been stolen.
In a letter to Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Haigh said, "I remain totally committed to our political project, but I now believe it will be best served by my supporting you from outside government.
"I appreciate that whatever the facts of the matter, this issue will inevitably be a distraction from delivering on the work of this government and the policies to which we are both committed," she wrote.
The resignation came hours after Sky News and...
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