Blackpool Tory MP Scott Benton criticises 'politically motivated' complaints over Rishi Sunak's seatbelt 'error'
A Blackpool MP has suggested Lancashire Police are wasting their time by “looking into” Rishi Sunak for failing to wear a seatbelt while filming a social media clip in the back of a moving car.
Labour said it would be “very serious” if Mr Sunak was to receive a second fine, having paid a fixed-penalty notice during the “partygate” scandal while chancellor. Mr Benton said while the force does an “amazing job”, he believes “their time is better spent investigating serious crime which impacts on my constituents”.He added: “The vast majority of people would think that politically motivated complaints about a seatbelt are not good use of frontline resources.
A spokesman added: “The Prime Minister believes everyone should wear a seatbelt. It was an error of judgment, he removed it for a short period of time to film a clip, which you’ve seen, but he accepts that was a mistake.” Labour frontbencher Nick Thomas-Symonds told Sky News: “It is very serious, it says a great deal about the depths of which this Conservative Government has sunk that we’re here talking about the Prime Minister on potentially his second police fine. That’s just the evidence we need to clean up politics.”
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