Transport Secretary Louise Haigh has resigned.
It comes after she admitted she pleaded guilty to an offence connected with incorrectly telling police that a work mobile phone was stolen in 2013.
In a statement on Thursday night, Ms Haigh said she discovered “some time later” that the phone had not been taken.
In her resignation letter this morning, she described it as a “mistake” but said that “whatever the facts of the matter, this issue will inevitably be a distraction from delivering on the work of this government”.
She wrote: “As you know, in 2013 I was mugged in London. As a 24-year-old woman, the experience was terrifying. In the immediate aftermath, I reported the incident to the police.
“I gave the police a list of my possessions that I believed had been stolen, including my work phone. Some time later, I discovered that the handset in question was still in my house.
“I should have immediately informed my employer and not doing so straight away was a mistake.”
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