Sunak fined for not wearing a seat belt

British police today fined Prime Minister Rishi Sunak for driving a car without wearing a seat belt to film a short video for social media.

In this video posted to his Instagram account, which has since been removed, the Conservative leader talks enthusiastically about his policy of territorial balancing, sitting in the back of a car without wearing his seat belt, while traveling in northern England.

Sunak apologized yesterday, Thursday, for what he called “a small mistake, an error of judgement”.

“Following the release of a video on social media showing a person not wearing a seatbelt while in a car driving in Lancashire, we have today issued a PPN (FPN) for a 42-year-old man from London,” Lancashire Police said on Twitter. .

The prime minister “fully acknowledges it was a mistake and has apologised. He will of course comply with the fine,” a Downing Street spokesman responded.

According to the BBC, the summons for not wearing a seat belt as a passenger in a car is £100 (€114.2) and could rise to £500 (€571) if the case goes to court.

This is not the first time that Rishi Sunak has been fined. When he was Boris Johnson’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, he was fined in the so-called “Partygate” scandal for attending a gathering for the Prime Minister’s birthday, in breach of anti-Covid regulations.

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