Speed crackdown MP banned for, er, speeding
A TORY MP who called for a speeding crackdown has lost his licence after he was caught driving at 26mph over the speed limit.
Paul Bristow, 42, was caught in his Toyota 4X4 doing 76mph in a 50mph zone on the A1 on his way to work. It was the third time in two years that the MP for Peterborough, who has campaigned for tougher speeding restrictions, has been caught over the speed limit.
Yesterday Peterborough Magistrates’ Court handed Bristow a 28-day driving ban, a £687 fine and £178 costs after he pleaded guilty to speeding on November 12, 2020. He had confessed to the offence in a column for his local paper, writing: “I need to be able to campaign about speeding without any suggestion of hypocrisy. Only by asking to be disqualified can I look constituents in the eye.”