PM caught not wearing seatbelt Downing Street will be hoping that once the prime minister has paid up, voters and journalists will move on and forget this rather embarrassing unforced error. To Rishi Sunak ‘s credit, he put his hands up and admitted the error almost immediately. But it is a reminder that in the top job, with a permacrisis of strikes, NHS delays and high inflation, mistakes can slip through the Number 10 net. Failing to wear a seatbelt is illegal, but filming it and publishing the evidence on social media suggests a lack of checks within the PM’s team. Passer-by shouts at PM as he defends levelling up cash – politics latest This is the second police fine Mr Sunak has received in nine months, after the Metropolitan Police punished him for attending a lockdown-busting birthday gathering for Boris Johnson. In recent months Mr Sunak has struggled with contactless payments, had an awkward conversation with a homeless man about financial services, and demonstrated a fondness for using private jets to travel around the UK even for relatively short journeys. Added together, such slip-ups may be exploited by the PM’s enemies to claim he is out of touch. […]