Tory peer Zac Goldsmith gets driving ban after being caught speeding 4 times
Former Tory minister Zac Goldsmith has been handed a driving ban after being caught speeding four times in London.
The Conservative peer, 48, cannot drive until mid-March when he will be sentenced for exceeding speed limits in a hybrid electric Volkswagen Golf on roads in Paddington, Chelsea and Twickenham between April and August last year.
Lord Goldsmith, who has pleaded guilty to the four incidents, also faces three other driving-related offences, including one in Somerset, Westminster Magistrates' Court heard on Thursday.
On April 27 last year, he was caught travelling along Chelsea Embankment at 29mph, despite the limit being 20mph, according to court papers. Just over a month later, on May 31, the Tory environmentalist drove at 46mph on the A316 in Twickenham, which has a 40mph limit.
He was caught speeding on that same road on August 3, while driving at 47mph. A month before the August incident, on July 18, Lord Goldsmith exceeded the 20mph limit on Bayswater Road, next to Kensington Gardens, while travelling at 28mph.
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The peer, who failed in an attempt to become London Mayor in 2016, did not attend the hearing at Westminster Magistrates Court this morning. In June last year he announced his resignation a day after he was named and shamed for attempting to undermine a Commons probe into Boris Johnson's Partygate lies.
In a damning two-page letter, Lord Goldsmith accused the Prime Minister of being "simply uninterested" in environmental issues. But Mr Sunak hit back, telling him: "You were asked to apologise for your comments about the Privileges Committee as we felt they were incompatible with your position as a Minister of the Crown. You have decided to take a different course.
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