UK foreign minister faces fine after JD Vance fishing trip licence error

London (Reuters) -Britain Foreign Minister David Lammy, after admitting that he did not have the necessary license last week, US Vice President JD Vance and a fisherman after a fishing journey can be fine.

Vance and Lammy were depicted by the media invited for hunting at the Chevening Country housing of the Foreign Minister’s Chevening Country in Southeast England before a bilateral meeting as part of the Vice President of England.

The vice president later joked on the camera, the US English was the only one of the three children on the private relationship capturing the fish while the British Foreign Minister was not.

All fishermen must have a valid rod license while fishing, regardless of whether they have caught anything and whether they are in a private land. Violations can be punished with a fine of up to 2,500 pounds ($ 3.394).

On Wednesday, Lammy’s office said that he had not purchased the license before the journey and had been trying to correct the error since then.

“The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the British Foreign Ministry said,” The Minister of Foreign Affairs wrote to the Environmental Agency on an administrative surveillance, which means that appropriate licenses were not purchased in a private lake as part of a diplomatic participation in Chevening House last week. ” He said.

He continued: “The Minister of Foreign Affairs has successfully purchased the fisheries’ licenses.”

Sözcü did not immediately comment on whether or not a license was purchased for Vance.

After staying at Chevening, Vance is in the UK with his wife Usha and his children who spent at Dean Hamlet at Pitoresk Cotswolds this week.

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