Liz Truss, the favourite to be the next PM, has suggested that she could make motorway speed limits advisory. What do you think of that idea? 🤔
The Foreign Secretary, Liz Truss, who is expected to win the race to be the next UK Prime Minister, has suggested that she could make motorway speed limits advisory.
Asked at the final hustings of the Conservative Party leadership campaign whether she would consider abolishing the current 70mph limit and allowing drivers to choose their own safe speed, Truss said: “I would be prepared to look at that.” However, Truss – who in 2018 advocated an increase in the motorway limit to 80mph to help boost the nation’s productivity – added that she couldn’t currently give “a precise answer” on what her policy around speed limits would be., describing them as “an experiment that hasn’t worked”, and saying she would stop them.
This mirrors the position of her leadership rival, former Chancellor Rishi Sunak, who has previously said “smart motorways are unpopular because they are unsafe” and that the Government needs to “stop with the pursuit of policies that go against common sense”.
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