Zac Goldsmith’s London mayoral campaign bus has been caught ploughing through a red traffic light.

The double-decker, emblazoned with the Conservative MP’s face and slogans promising "safer streets" and "better transport", was snapped apparently breaking the rules of the roads in Kensington this week.

Mark Walker, who took the photo and shared it on S**t London Facebook group yesterday, said: "On my way back home from work I was stuck breathing in the ‘cleaner ait of Zac’s big diesel motor when it showed his vision of ‘safer streets by blazing through this red light.

"I wonder if the man himself was driving? It is better transport after all."

A spokesman for Zac Goldsmith’s campaign team said: "We take road safety extremely seriously and have investigated what happened.

"As the position of other cars in the photo illustrates, the bus passed the traffic light well before it turned red.

"Zac was campaigning on his Action Plan for Greater London and was not on the bus at the time."

The Richmond Park and North Kingston MP has previously said he saw no point in bus lanes.

He told LBC in November: "Within two to three years there will be no point having bus lanes because everybody is going to be driving [electric] cars around."