It’s not every day that you see two senior politicians getting their rods out.

But that’s exactly what Foreign Secretary David Lammy and US Vice President did during JD Vance’s three-day flying visit to the UK this week.

The Vances based themselves at Dean Manor in the tiny settlement of Dean, not far from David Cameron’s digs in Chipping Norton, in the Cotswolds.

While visiting Lammy at Chevening House in Kent, the two decided to take up a spot of fishing together.

Harmless, right? Apparently not.

Lammy has now referred himself to the environment watchdog because he failed to obtain rod licences for the pair to go fishing.

Anglers in England and Wales aged 13 or over must have a rod licence to fish for freshwater species, such as carp, according to the Environment Agency. But fish l

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