Government u-turn on compulsory dog insurance
The Government has been forced to scrap plans for compulsory dog insurance less than a two weeks since they were revealed in leaked Defra documents . Environment Secretary Hilary Benn has now ruled out the idea. Apparently, the climbdown followed protests that compulsory insurance was no more than a 'dog tax' which would do nothing to curb the problem of dangerous dogs. There's a certain irony in the way the story was reported in The Sun newspaper , with the headline: 'Labour forced to ditch pet plan'. Indeed !