Haigh returns to Cabinet with three top roles under Burnham — unpaid

Louise Haigh, who resigned as Transport Secretary in November 2024 after a 2013 false police report conviction surfaced, now holds three of Whitehall's most senior titles: Minister for the Cabinet Office, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and First Secretary of State. The BBC places her in the "cockpit" of Prime Minister Andy Burnham's administration. She serves unpaid — an unusual arrangement in modern government.