Road Safety Authority warns drivers permits must be exchanged by end of the year .
The Minister for Transport has said it is "disturbing" that over half the people who hold UK driving licences in Ireland have not exchanged them for an Irish driving licence as the Brexit deadline approaches.
Are we getting Brexit done?
05/01/2023
The UK has identified nearly 4,000 EU laws and regulations which we are now “free from”. What have we done with these newfound freedoms?
British travellers face challenges this year not only from the Covid crisis, but also the effects of Brexit. Here’s the lowdown.
Brexifornia: Checking out but never leaving
08/06/2020
Brexit will never be over.
Rishi Sunak plans to rip up remaining EU laws by the end of the year left on the statute book after Brexit - but experts worry that any relaxation in seatbelt rules will discourage people from wearing them.
UK’s exit from EU ‘no doubt will have been a factor’, transport secretary concedes.
Brexiteer Lord David Frost predicts cars will soon be banned. He’s just as accurate as ever
02/08/2022
he man who wants to rip up his own deal with Europe is wrong about our absolute right to drive. / Lord Frost, negotiator of the disastrous 2019 Brexit withdrawal agreement, is now turning his dubious capacity for foresight to the future of the car.
"The British government has left us out in the cold," says Terence Knott. He's the man behind EUBritizens, an action group of British people living in Europe whose lives have changed dramatically due to Brexit.
Brits with homes in the EU have been told they cannot drive through France to get there because of new Covid travel rules – and, implicitly, Brexit.
Up to 1 million British people living in the EU may have to take new driving tests after a no-deal Brexit if they do not exchange their UK licence for a European one before 29 March, the government has said.
Thousands face not having a valid permit after lack of deal between UK and France and flood of applications.
Britons in Spain to protest over Brexit change to licence rules that has left them stranded
18/09/2022
Brits in Spain are asking ‘how is it fair that an 18-year-old British tourist can come over here and rent a car at an airport, but I cannot drive?’
Bumper Brexit? Drivers with Welsh flag number plates to be forced to use ‘UK’ sticker when abroad
26/09/2021
Number plates in Wales displaying the Welsh dragon or Cymru symbols will be forced to add new ‘UK’ stickers when driving abroad.
Car drivers face two-hour queues at Dover and Folkestone from January – and even longer waits in summer
06/11/2020
A new report from the National Audit Office reveals the range of possible issues from 1 January 2021.
Boris Johnson’s planned cuts will worsen delays on passports and driving licences, union warns.
As the possibility of a no-deal Brexit scenario increases, and the government publishes its “no-deal preparedness” notices, it is worth taking stock of the sheer variety of problems that would arise with a no-deal Brexit – and the devastating consequences that would arise from such a legal limbo. Here’s what we know so far.
Jacob Rees-Mogg says we should ignore an EU push for speed limiters in cars - but it has the potential to save more lives than seat belts.
The new law protects vulnerable road users and comes into force on Monday.
DfT refuses to say who made decision as it would breach election ‘purdah’ rules.
UK nationals who have lived in Spain for more than six months will no longer be able to use their DVLA-issued licences.
Foreign Office advises British people living in EU to give up their UK driving licences to prepare for Brexit
22/01/2019
Embassies suggest people exchange British licences for local version before deadline.