I agree with HumanPenguin but your stance is a bit silly.

You don’t need to be an expert to know you need a licence, everyone else and their dog is expected to know to get one. Ignorance of the law is never accepted as an excuse by councils, police, or courts.

It sounds like he’s done right and remedied it, but again, ignorance of the law is never accepted as an excuse for breaching the law. Lammy doesn’t work alone, he has a team of people, and not one of them organised a licence. It’s either a case of incompetence or a case of thinking he’s above the rules and got caught. Both are bad optics for an already struggling government.

Don’t they look tired?