There is now a danger that the DVLA will end up going on a rubber-stamp spree, and pass applications without checking them…
We’d then have an entire wave of future HGV drivers who have not actually taken the test, let alone passed any “Medical”, nor likely even achieved legal UK working status…
I await the first inevitable news reports of “Public being endangered by HGV drivers” - sending us straight back to ground zero for public popularity. 