Journey-on lawnmowers, mobility scooters and golf buggies won’t want motor insurance coverage after the federal government scrapped a legislation set to be applied throughout the EU.
Boris Johnson had beforehand described the union’s plans to increase obligatory protection to such automobiles as “insane”.
Now, regardless of long-term work to implement the laws right here, the UK’s withdrawal from the block means the proposed legislation can be spiked on the prime minister’s say-so.
Different automobiles which is able to now keep away from having to be insured below the so-called Vnuk laws – named after a Slovenian farm hand who was damage by a tractor trailer in 2014 – can be quad bikes used on non-public land.
Transport secretary Grant Shapps mentioned on Saturday: “We’ve all the time disagreed with this over-the-top legislation that may solely do one factor – hit the pockets of hard-working individuals up and down the nation with an pointless hike of their automobile insurance coverage.
“I’m delighted to announce that we not have to implement it.
“Scrapping this rule would save the nation billions of kilos and is a part of a brand new and affluent future for the UK exterior the EU.”
He prompt that dropping the legislation would save a median £50 on annual insurance coverage premiums for British drivers and cease the insurance coverage trade being responsible for an estimated £2bn.
In January 2017, Mr Johnson, then international secretary, wrote in The Every day Telegraph he believed there was “not even the shred of the beginnings of a case – in the UK – for this sort of pointless and costly burden on tens of millions of individuals”.
