 UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been fined for not wearing a seat belt. British police issued Prime Minister Rishi Sunak with a fine on Friday evening for riding in a car without a seat belt in a video clip that Sunak's team had published on social media. Sunak's spokesperson had apologised for the previous day for a brief error of judgement after people had noticed and criticised the indiscretion published on Sunak's Instagram account. Messengers caught failing to wear a seat belt when one is available can be fined £100. This can increase to £500 if the case goes to court. Dominic Raab, Deputy Prime Minister said, Mr Sunak was someone with the highest standards of integrity who had made a mistake on the seat belt issue. Dominic Raab said the PM was a human being doing a demanding job and had put his hands straight up and apologised. The Prime Minister was in Lancashire when the video was filmed during a trip across the north of England. Police from the county of Lancashire where Sunak's car was at the time did not name the Prime Minister in their initial announcement, although they gave his age and place of residence. Following the circulation of a video on social media showing an individual failing to wear a seat belt while a passenger in a moving car in Lancashire, we have issued a 42-year-old man from London with a conditional offer of a fixed penalty. Sunak was fined £50, around €57 or $62, one-tenth of the theoretical maximum fee for not wearing a seat belt if taking the case to court. Soon after, 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. The case had prompted criticism from opposition politicians with Labour Deputy Leader Angela Rayner calling Sunak a total liability. But a Conservative MP from Lancashire, Scott Benton said he was sure that Lancashire police's time is better spent investigating serious crime which impacts on my constituents. He called the complaints politically motivated. Sunak was also one of a roughly 50 people, including former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who received a fixed penalty notice last April for attending a birthday party for Johnson at 10 Downing Street in June 2020, in defiance of the government's own rules on special distancing during the Covid pandemic.