Louise Haigh | |||||||||||||||||||
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 Official portrait, 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Secretary of State for Transport | |||||||||||||||||||
| Assumed office 5 July 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Prime Minister | Keir Starmer | ||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Mark Harper | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Member of Parliament for Sheffield Heeley | |||||||||||||||||||
| Assumed office 7 May 2015 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Meg Munn | ||||||||||||||||||
| Majority | 15,304 (39.8%) | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | Louise Margaret Haigh 22 July 1987 Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England | ||||||||||||||||||
| Political party | Labour | ||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | University of Nottingham | ||||||||||||||||||
Louise Margaret Haigh (/heɪɡ/; born 22 July 1987) is a British politician who has served as Secretary of State for Transport since July 2024. A member of the Labour Party, she has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sheffield Heeley since 2015. She previously held various shadow ministerial and shadow cabinet portfolios between 2015 and 2024.
Born in Sheffield, Haigh attended Sheffield High School and later studied at the University of Nottingham. She later worked in Parliament, before working as a public policy manager at Aviva. Haigh was elected to Parliament as MP for Sheffield Heeley in the 2015 general election, and joined the shadow frontbench as Shadow Minister for the Civil Service and Digital Reform under Jeremy Corbyn. She became the Shadow Minister for the Digital Economy in 2016, and was reelected in the 2017 general election. She was the Shadow Minister for Policing from 2017 to 2020, and was reelected in the 2019 general election.
After Keir Starmer became Leader of the Opposition following the 2020 Labour Party leadership election, Haigh joined the Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. In the November 2021 British shadow cabinet reshuffle, she became the Shadow Secretary of State for Transport. Following Labour's victory in the 2024 general election, Haigh was appointed to the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Transport in the Starmer ministry.