A taxi driver for British Foreign Secretary David Lammy has been accused of refusing to pay a £590 taxi fare for a journey from Italy to France.
The driver claimed to have met Lammy and his wife in the town of Forlì, near Bologna, after they accompanied King Charles and Queen Camilla on a three-day state visit to Italy in April.
The Foreign Secretary traveled for six hours and more than 580 kilometers to Flaine, a ski village in Haute-Savoie in the French Alps.
The driver said Lammy, 52, and his wife, Nicola Green, refused to pay the fare.
The driver told the local newspaper La Provence that he dropped the couple off at their destination and went to the local police station to report the incident.
A Foreign Ministry spokesperson told 20 Minutes: "We completely deny these allegations. The fare was paid in full. The Foreign Minister and his wife have been questioned as victims in this case, and the driver is being prosecuted for theft."
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