Sky News first approached Labour weeks before the revelations about Louise Haigh were published. Twelve hours after the story broke, she resigned.
'They're all the same' is a political narrative that can sink governments. It's a narrative Sir Keir Starmer vowed to prove wrong - promising a break from the psychodrama of the past. But it's a narrative undermined by stories such as the one we revealed on Thursday: that months before Louise Haigh became an MP, she was pleading guilty in a south London court. Within 12 hours, she had resigned as transport secretary.
So with facts hard to come by through official channels, what exactly was known in government? The given reason from Downing Street sources for Ms Haigh's 'resignation' was the gaps between what she had told Sir Keir Starmer about the incident and what emerged on Thursday. Her allies dispute this, saying she set it all out to the party's top brass back in 2020.
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