Top Gear might be off air, but Kemi Badenoch is auditioning to fill Jeremy Clarkson’s shoes as a put-upon motorists, raging from a sofa about red tape, bureaucracy and injustice.

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The Conservative leader told LBC’s Nick Ferrari this week that she'd consider scrapping points for drivers caught speeding in 20mph zones should her party get into power."

They should be getting points on their licence for driving dangerously,” she said, adding that driving at 22mph is “very different from driving dangerously”.

The issue has become increasingly contentious with every road that is modified to have restrictions at the lower limit, with 16% of British streets now having a 20mph limit.

A case study being rolled out to argue that punishments for exceeding the limit are too harsh is that of a north London........

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