OUR British today the police fined the prime minister Rishi Sunak for driving a car without a seat belt to make a short video for social media.

In this video posted to his Instagram account, which has since been deleted, the Conservative leader enthusiastically talks about his policy of territorial balancing from the back seat of a car, not wearing a seatbelt, while traveling through the north of England. Sunak apologized yesterday, Thursday, for what he called “a small mistake, an error of judgment.”

“Following a video circulating on social media showing a man not wearing a seat belt in a car traveling through Lancashire, today we issued a PPN (FPN) to a 42-year-old man from London,” Lancashire Police tweeted.

🚨 | NEW: Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was NOT wearing a seat belt in a video recorded this morning in his government car. pic.twitter.com/SOLn5YGnT7

— UK Politics 🇬🇧 (@POLITlCSUK) January 19, 2023

The Prime Minister “fully admits that this was a mistake and has apologized. Of course he will carry out the fine,” said a spokesman for Downing Street.

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

This is not Rishi Sunak’s first fine. When he was Boris Johnson’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, he was fined in the so-called “Partygate” scandal for attending a prime minister’s birthday meeting in violation of anti-COVID rules.

^{Source: APE-MEB, AFP, Reuters.}