UK international minister faces fantastic after JD Vance fishing journey licence error

LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s international minister David Lammy might be on the hook for a 2,500 kilos ($3,394) fantastic following his fishing journey final week with U.S. Vice President JD Vance, after admitting he did not have the required licence.

Vance and Lammy had been pictured by invited media as they fished within the lake on the international minister’s Chevening nation residence in southeast England earlier than a bilateral assembly as a part of the vp’s working vacation to Britain.

The vp later joked on digital camera that the one pressure on the U.S.-British particular relationship was that whereas his three kids had caught fish, the British international minister had not.

All anglers are required by legislation to have a sound rod licence whereas they’re fishing, no matter whether or not they catch something and whether or not they’re on non-public land. Breaches will be punished with a fantastic of as much as 2,500 kilos ($3,394).

Lammy’s workplace on Wednesday stated he had not bought the licence earlier than the journey and had since sought to rectify the error.

“The Overseas Secretary has written to the Setting Company over an administrative oversight that meant the suitable licences had not been acquired for fishing on a personal lake as a part of a diplomatic engagement at Chevening Home final week,” a spokesperson for Britain’s Overseas Workplace stated in an announcement.

“As quickly because the Overseas Secretary was made conscious of the executive error, he efficiently bought the related rod fishing licences.”

The spokesperson had no quick touch upon whether or not a licence had been bought for Vance too.

Vance is in England along with his spouse Usha and their kids, who’re spending this week within the hamlet of Dean within the picturesque Cotswolds, following their keep at Chevening.

($1 = 0.7367 kilos)

(Reporting by Sachin Ravikumar; enhancing by William James and Alexandra Hudson)