Liz Truss has hinted that she could scrap motorway speed limits if she becomes PM
Ms Truss told Nick Ferrari at the twelfth, and final, leadership hustings on Wednesday, that she was “prepared to look at” introducing a German-style system of motorways with no speed limits.
She also pledged to ban smart motorways, telling Conservative party members that where they have been found to be unsafe, we need “to review them and stop them as soon as possible”. “I do believe the smart motorway experiment hasn’t worked," she told LBC presenter Nick Ferrari, live at tonight's hustings at Wembley Arena.In Germany, most autobahns have no speed limit, but drivers face increased liability if they are involved in a crash while travelling at very high speeds.
Ms Truss said she would work to end smart motorways, which have been paused in the UK because of safety concerns.
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