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Anon at 1523 yesterday is quite right . When you first qualify at anything you have only just begun your road to full competence and you are nowhere near the complete article .Hence the sensible protection of a further three year period prior to setting up on ones own . That would seem so obvious that it can only be that the SRA are surely not ignorant of that fact but rather choose to ignore it in their desire to increase competition and lower prices for the public which seems their overriding concern always .
The profession is well used to the SRA acting directly against our interests but increasingly they now act against those of the public . It is extraordinary.
If the SRA don't wish to research why the 3 year Rule was brought in and how it helped protect the public they might just reflect that 1 in 5 drivers have a car crash in the first year of driving ; the inexperience and overconfidence of those early days eventually leads in time in most cases to better competent driving.
( tellingly those countries that have a graduated licensing system for newly qualified drivers have less accidents in that category)
It is good to see TLS firing up the rhetoric .More please. Robust evidence -based responses are essential to fight such ill- thought out proposals.