Ed Balls caught ‘bang to rights’ for speeding

Ed BALLS has confessed to being caught speeding – saying that he was caught “bang to rights”.

The shadow chancellor said he was going 56mph in a 50mph zone on the motorway in his West Yorkshire constituency when he triggered a speed camera.

Joking that he had been going “too far, too fast” – a favourite attack line against the coalition’s austerity measures – Mr Balls said he had paid a fine and attended a speed awareness course rather than accept penalty points.

“Like many local people, I was caught out by the roadworks on the M62. Pulling on to the motorway I realised too late that the speed restrictions were still in place,” he wrote on his blog.

“I was caught and bang to rights.”