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Keir Starmer’s Transport Secretary Louise Haigh has admitted to pleading responsible to an offence in 2014 after incorrectly telling police that her cell phone was stolen.

Ms Haigh has described the incident as a “genuine mistake”, however some social media commentators are calling for her resignation and citing her historical past of outspokenly calling on different Parliamentarians to stop their roles as a cause to follow what she preaches.

In the final decade, the MP for Sheffield Heeley has known as on her colleagues to resign at least 5 instances, first demanding that then-Prime Minister Theresa May step down in 2017. “I think Theresa May had a shocking campaign. I’m amazed that she’s not resigned. Clearly she has to,” she informed Sheffield Live after the June basic election.

She then contributed to the tide in opposition to then-Home Secretary Amber Rudd in April 2018, telling BBC Radio Sheffield that she had “deliberately misled parliament” over targets for eradicating unlawful immigrants. “She has to go,” Ms Haigh stated. “If your only excuse is gross incompetence then you cannot remain in post.”

Her most vociferous calls have been directed in the direction of Boris Johnson after the Partygate scandal, nevertheless. “This is a matter of trust and leadership and I don’t think that the man who set the rules and asked the British people to make unimaginable sacrifices, and then is found to have repeatedly flouted them, can remain in post. We think he should resign,” she informed the BBC in March 2022.

“He has clearly repeatedly lied to the House of Commons and to the British people and the only question he should now answer is when he will resign,” she later added on LBC.

And, later that yr, she posted on X: “You can’t make the rules, then break the rules. You can’t have one rule for yourself, and different rules for everyone else. But now it’s time that the rules applied. Resign.”

Ms Haigh additionally accused Mr Johnson of “deceiving the police” within the House of Commons in 2019, suggesting he had “seriously breached” public belief by “politicising serving officers”.

Speaking of her offence related to a false report back to police – which is now believed to be spent – the Transport Secretary informed Sky News: “In 2013 I was mugged while on a night out. I was a young woman and the experience was terrifying.

“I reported it to the police and gave them a list of what I believed had been taken – including a work mobile phone that had been issued by my employer.

“Some time later I discovered that the mobile in question had not been taken. In the interim I had been issued with another work phone.

“The original work device being switched on triggered police attention and I was asked to come in for questioning. My solicitor advised me not to comment during that interview and I regret following that advice.

“The police referred the matter to the CPS and I appeared before Southwark magistrates. Under the advice of my solicitor I pleaded guilty – despite the fact this was a genuine mistake from which I did not make any gain.

“The magistrates accepted all of these arguments and gave me the lowest possible outcome (a discharge) available.”

Nigel Huddleston, chair of the Conservative Party has stated Keir Starmer has “serious questions” to reply concerning the matter.

Mr Huddleston stated: “These are extremely concerning revelations about the person responsible for managing £30 billion of taxpayers’ money.

“Keir Starmer has serious questions to answer regarding what he knew and when about the person he appointed as Transport Secretary admitting to having misled the police.”