UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was fined by police on Friday for taking off his seat belt to film a social media video in a moving car. 9News
The Lancashire Police force said it had looked into video “circulating on social media showing an individual failing to wear a seat belt while a passenger in a moving car in Lancashire".The force said, without naming Sunak, that it had “issued a 42-year-old man from London with a conditional offer of fixed penalty".
Failing to wear a seat belt is punishable by a penalty of up to £500 , though fixed penalty notices for such offences are usually £100 pounds if paid promptly.Police didn't say how much Sunak was fined.Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, right, with Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese in November.
Sunak's office said in a statement that "the prime minister fully accepts this was a mistake and has apologised. He will of course comply with the fixed penalty".Last year, when he was Treasury chief, he was fined £50 for breaching pandemic lockdown rules by briefly attending a party inside government offices.He was one of dozens of officials fined over the “partygate” scandal, including then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Sunak took office as UK leader in October, promising “integrity, professionalism and accountability" after a tumultuous few years that saw Johnson ousted by multiple scandals and his successor Liz Truss toppled after her policies rocked the UK economy.
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