Registering gitlab runner using kubernetes fails with Forbidden error

I'm trying to create a gitlab runner using the following documents: https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/install/kubernetes.html

Having replaced the token and ran it in kubernetes using kubectl create -f scripts where scripts contains the both yml files.

It fails with the following errors

Starting multi-runner from /etc/gitlab-runner/config.toml ...  builds=0
Running in system-mode.

Configuration loaded                                builds=0
Metrics server disabled
ERROR: Checking for jobs... forbidden               runner=h181Sye7
ERROR: Checking for jobs... forbidden               runner=h181Sye7
ERROR: Checking for jobs... forbidden               runner=h181Sye7
ERROR: Runner https://gitlab.com/cih181Sye7fcs7V33t4ofs is not healthy and will be disabled!