Diane Abbott has claimed Sir Keir Starmer threw Louise Haigh "under the bus" after she resigned over a historic misdemeanour.

Labour party’s Haigh was the youngest member of PM Keir Starmer’s cabinet when a decade-old fraud case resurfaced.

Louise Haigh has resigned as transport secretary after it emerged she pleaded guilty to a fraud offence a decade ago. Downing Street has named justice minister Heidi Alexander as her replacement. Haigh has admitted telling police in 2013 she had lost her work mobile phone in a mugging, but later found it had not been taken.

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

A Cabinet minister has said he does not know “who knew what when” in relation to the criminal conviction which saw Louise Haigh quit as transport secretary. Ms Haigh resigned on Friday after it emerged she had pleaded guilty to a criminal offence related to incorrectly telling police that a work mobile phone was stolen in 2013.

The first cabinet resignation is a moment for any government and a rite of passage for any prime minister. There is the first enforced shuffle of personnel at the top table for a start, a headache for Downing Street as they scour the subs bench for replacements,

Labour’s plan to nationalise the railways has been thrown into chaos following the resignation of Louise Haigh as Transport Secretary.

Louise Haigh’s resignation as the transport secretary is raising serious questions for Keir Starmer. The Labour MP quit suddenly on Friday morning, less than 12 hours after reports of her 2014 fraud conviction emerged.

That’s exactly how Louise Haigh’s tenure as Transport Secretary for the UK government has ended. In a flurry of briefings to media on Thursday evening, sparked by a story in The Times, sources close to Haigh hurried to minimise the impact of a resurfaced conviction of Haigh 11 years ago.