Louise Haigh has been dismissed from Keir Starmer's government due to a criminal conviction from over a decade ago, despite her claims that her work phone was stolen during a mugging in 2013.
Isabel Hardman: ‘Perhaps if things had been running smoothly at Transport, Starmer might have taken longer to dispatch Haigh’
Starmer might have learned from his own problems with donated glasses, but is there also something for him to learn from this case? He likes to remind us at every opportunity that he is a former director of public prosecutions, and is more likely than any other politician to have tugged at the threads of the story offered to him by Haigh. Was he sufficiently curious about what really happened? If he wasn’t, then that might explain why he felt his minister had to go when all the facts emerged.
Haigh had not just caused Starmer one night of bad news. She had also, according to some of her own colleagues in Government, not been performing all that well as a minister. The row over hernearly derailed Starmer and Rachel Reeves’s flagship investment summit when the ferry operator’s owner DP World threatened to drop out of the event and cast doubt over a planned £1bn investment.
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