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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'.
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I suppose they cant afford to upset too many people - with election looming, any other ime and they wouldnt have given it a second thought and would have gone straight through. I suppose we should be thankful it only took two weeks and the initial cost of research before they abandoned it. Does make me wonder how many pre election promises will be ditched just as quickly once the election is over