Ban for moneybags MP caught texting at the wheel

Britain’s ‘wealthiest MP’ has been banned from the road for six months after he was caught texting while driving through north London in his BMW. Tory MP and property developer Richard Benyon, 57, was caught by a police officer on trendy Upper Street in Islington using his phone while sitting in stationary traffic. Magistrates’ heard the MP for Newbury, Berkshire, continued to use the phone after the light turned green and he moved ‘five to seven metres’ forward. Benyon, a…