Transport Secretary Louise Haigh has admitted pleading guilty to an offence connected with misleading the police while a parliamentary candidate in 2014, Sky News can reveal.
Sky News understands Ms Haigh appeared at Camberwell Green Magistrates' Court six months before the 2015 general election, after making a false report to officers that her mobile phone had been stolen. Ms Haigh said she was 'mugged while on a night out' in 2013. She then reported the incident to the police and gave officers a list of items she believed had been taken - including a work mobile phone.
' Before entering politics, the transport secretary was a special constable in the Metropolitan Police - serving between 2009 and 2011 in the South London Borough of Lambeth, close to where she was convicted several years later. She was appointed shadow policing minister by Jeremy Corbyn in 2017 and frequently drew on her experience in the Met when challenging the Tory government on the rising demands on officers.
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