Ms Pryce will be sentenced at a later date
The former wife of ex-cabinet minister Chris Huhne has been found guilty of perverting the course of justice by taking speeding points on his behalf.
Vicky Pryce, 60, was convicted at Southwark Crown Court of committing the offence over a speeding incident on the M11 in Essex in 2003.
She had denied the charge, saying Huhne had forced her to take the points.
Huhne, 58, admitted the same charge in February, resigning as Liberal Democrat MP for Eastleigh, in Hampshire.
The decision is the result of a retrial, after a jury failed to reach a verdict in Pryce's original trial in February.
The judge, Mr Justice Sweeney, told her that she, like her ex-husband, should be under no illusion about the sentence she now faces.
He said sentencing of Pryce, who is from Clapham, south London, and Huhne will take place at a later date.
He granted Pryce bail until the next hearing but said she should be under "no illusion" about the type of sentence she now faces.
The pair were charged last year over an incident in March 2003 when Huhne's car was caught by a speed camera on the M11 motorway between Stansted Airport, in Essex, and London. He was an MEP at the time.
It was alleged that between 12 March and 21 May 2003, Pryce, a prominent economist, had falsely informed police she had been the driver of the car, so Huhne would avoid prosecution.
He was in danger of losing his licence having already accrued nine penalty points.
During both trials, Pryce accepted she had taken Huhne's points, but adopted a defence of marital coercion, claiming he had made her sign a form he had already completed in her name.
However, the prosecution alleged Pryce had chosen to take the points, but later plotted to expose Huhne after he revealed he was having an affair with an aide and ended the couple's 26-year marriage.
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