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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Jamie Grierson

Zac Goldsmith banned from driving after breaking speed limit seven times

Zac Goldsmith outside the Cabinet Office.
The Tory peer was fined £5,500, and ordered to pay a surcharge of £2,000 and costs of £700. Photograph: Tayfun Salcı/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock

Zac Goldsmith was warned by a judge that speeding drivers “emit more harmful emissions” as he was banned from driving for a year for a number of motoring offences.

The former environment minister, 49, broke speed limits seven times in his hybrid Volkswagen Golf on London roads in Paddington, Chelsea and Twickenham between April and November 2023.

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