UK PM Starmer names Heidi Alexander as new transport minister


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  • Friday, 29 Nov 2024

FILE PHOTO: Britain's opposition Labour Party shadow health secretary Heidi Alexander arrives at parliament in London, Britain September 14, 2015. REUTERS/Neil Hall/File Photo

LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Keir Starmer named Heidi Alexander as the country's new transport minister on Friday, hours after Louise Haigh resigned over an historic offence in connection with misleading police.

(Reporting by Catarina Demony, writing by Sarah Young, editing by Elizabeth Piper)

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