Home secretary Suella Braverman is facing a grilling by MPs after she allegedly asked her staff to help her dodge a speeding fine.
Ms Braverman said she was “confident that nothing untoward happened” in the handling of her speeding offence and added she regrets breaking the speed limit.
The home secretary denied trying to “evade” punishment on the speeding offence. Ms Braverman was challenged by Labour MP Emma Lewell-Buck in the Commons, and asked if she agreed that no-one should be “above the law”.
Braverman said: “Last summer I was speeding. I regret that. I paid the fine and I took the penalty. And at no point did I tried to evade sanction.”
Rishi Sunak earlier spoke to his ethics adviser Sir Laurie Magnus about Suella Braverman, but it is understood no formal inquiry has yet been launched into whether she breached the ministerial code.
A No 10 spokesman said Mr Sunak continued to have confidence in his home secretary.
A spokesman for the home secretary said she had since accepted the points and paid the fine.
