Tag Archives: Yasmin Qureshi

Iain Roberts

MP banned for driving whilst using her mobile

By Iain Roberts | Thu 19th August 2010 - 3:19 pm

The BBC is reporting that Yasmin Qureshi, Labour MP for Bolton South East has been banned from driving for six months and fined £1,250 plus costs for using her mobile phone whilst driving and driving without insurance. Qureshi already had nine points on her licence.

Qureshi, according to the report, said being uninsured was a mistake and she thought the policy had been renewed.

Given how many of us do use our mobile phones whilst behind the wheel, at least from time to time, this case should perhaps be more of the “there but for the grace of God…” variety …

Continue reading »
Posted in News | 10 Comments
Advert

Recent Comments

  • Jack
    This is devastating. Christine Jardine is my kind of Lib Dem. There's a left-right element to that comment, but it's not just that. I worry about a liberal part...
  • Graham Evans
    Surely the wider party membership and Liberal Democrats voters in Edinburgh West are entitled to know what has been going on in the local party. All we know is ...
  • Ruth Bright
    Supreme irony that one of the commenters here about diversity at conference mortified me at a conference of yore by drawing attention to the fact that I was alw...
  • Rebecca Taylor
    @Anne - biological sex based exclusions were always permitted under the Equality Act (before the Supreme Court ruling) in limited and defined circumstances like...
  • Roderick Lynch
    Christine Jardine MP is one of our most formidable MP’s . She can debate you in depth on most subjects. One of MP’s that kept the party relevant when wipe o...