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Reform UK’s Scottish leader said he is ‘mortified’ after being spotted driving an untaxed vehicle on the campaign trail.
Lord Malcolm Offord drove a Range Rover to last week’s televised leaders’ debates, which according to official records, should have been taxed on April 1.
Reform UK said the failure to pay the £200 vehicle tax on time was an ‘administrative oversight’.
Lord Offord later wrote on X: ‘It's mortifying. I've been constantly on the move for the campaign, and missed the letter that I owed £200 of road tax on one of my cars on April 1st.’
Lord Malcolm Offord drove an untaxed vehicle to the leaders' debaye
Drivers caught driving an untaxed vehicle are liable to an £80 fine. Non-payers can also face a penalty of up to £1,000.
Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson put Mr Offord in the House of Lords after he made a sizeable donation to the Conservative Party in 2021 and stood as a candidate.
He served as a Conservative minister but later defected to Reform in December, becoming its leader in Scotland a month later.
A Reform spokesman added: ‘As soon as he became aware of the matter, he took immediate steps to rectify it.
‘This was an honest administrative mistake and the issue has now been resolved.’
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