Louise Haigh
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Louise Margaret Haigh () is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for Transport from July to November 2024. A member of the Labour Party, she has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sheffield Heeley since 2015. She held various shadow ministerial and shadow cabinet portfolios between 2015 and 2024. Born in Sheffield, Haigh was privately educated at Sheffield High School and later studied at the University of Nottingham. She later worked in Parliament, before working as a public policy manager at Aviva. Haigh was elected to Parliament as MP for Sheffield Heeley in the 2015 general election, and joined the shadow frontbench as Shadow Minister for the Civil Service and Digital Reform under Jeremy Corbyn. She became the Shadow Minister for the Digital Economy in 2016, and was re-elected in the 2017 general election. She was the Shadow Minister for Policing from 2017 to 2020, and was re-elected in the 2019 general election. After Keir Starmer became Leader of the Opposition in 2020, Haigh joined the Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. In November 2021, she became the Shadow Secretary of State for Transport. Following Labour's victory in the 2024 general election, Haigh was appointed to the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Transport in the Starmer ministry. On 28 November 2024, it emerged that Haigh had pleaded guilty to fraud by false representation in 2014 after falsely reporting in 2013 to police that her work phone had been stolen; she subsequently resigned as Transport Secretary.