Went on the radio to talk about the driving test backlog and the End The Backlog campaign again - this time in a special feature for Greatest Hits Radio News featuring Neil O'Brien and others:

🚨🗣️🚗 We are looking for someone who would be willing to speak to BBC Radio 4’s You and Yours programme about their experience trying to get a driving test for a pre-recorded segment this week. Please get in touch (DM or email) if you are interested!

A knock-on effect of desperate learners seeking tests at any cost is the emerging industry of racketeers and fraudsters exploiting their desperation. Sign the petition here: change.org/p/allow-approv… thetimes.com/business-money…

Great write-up from Lucy Andrews in The Times and The Sunday Times on the scammers exploiting learners desperate to book tests. Includes the shocking stat that 10% of tests - nearly 200,000 per year - are booked via a third party, because it's so hard to get one officially! thetimes.com/business-money…

📨✍️WRITE TO YOUR MP ✍️📨 Are you frustrated by the driving test backlog? Have you been waiting months or years to pass a test? Now you can ask your MP to #EndTheBacklog using our new email template, kindly hosted by TaxPayers' Alliance: taxpayersalliance.com/end_the_drivin…

The latest episode of A Nation of TaxPayers is out! This week we had Ellen of Civitas think tank join Duncan Barkes and Elliot Keck to discuss her campaign to end the backlog in driving test bookings! Make sure to tune in 👇 open.spotify.com/episode/6dmu2g…

Was great fun discussing the driving test backlog with Duncan Barkes and Elliot Keck on TaxPayers' Alliance’s brand new podcast, A Nation of Taxpayers. Give it a listen below!

driving.org/driving-test-d… More stories of the people and professions impacted by the UK's backlog from The DIA, including ➡️ paramedics waiting months to drive ambulances ➡️ police officers unable to start their job ➡️ current MPs waiting to take their tests

There is an average waiting time of about 4 months for a driving test in the UK. So how are Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency responding? Well, a fall in the number of car practical tests conducted for two consecutive quarters... The state is broken

I spoke about this with Ellen End The Backlog for TaxPayers' Alliance podcast a few weeks ago Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/6dmu2g…

i wrote about how "small issues" of bin strikes/driving test backlogs are in fact big electoral issues people have far more *direct* experience w/ the DVLA than trade deals, so if you want to win, it's vital to get right see the 37k ppl who signed End The Backlog's petition!

This was a very good bit of reporting. Another thing that it seems would be quite easy to sort out is the enormous backlog in driving tests, as Ellen has regularly noted

Maddening that there is basically a de facto ban on young Brits driving (driving test booking system has been unusable since 2020), and yet there is no restriction for people from any other country as long as they've been issued a licence at home (where often the test is just

Topsy turvy Britain

I have STILL not been able to get a test after failing two with a six-month gap between them (and another six-month wait between second and third). If the third one doesn't go well, I won't be able to book another before my theory test (good for two years) expires. Disgraceful.