FEEL the need for speed? A career as a British spy may be the best way to indulge your street racing fantasies without having a brush with the law.
MI5 and MI6 officers will be allowed to break speed limits and ignore red lights under changes to motoring laws set to be announced today, the BBC reports.
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Spies are now to be allowed to break the speed limit. That might blow their cover. Watch out for speeding Astons. #spiesnomore— Roland Nissan (@RolandN) January 13, 2014
The changes follow a Department of Transport consultation that found that 93 per cent of respondents felt the speeding exemption already enjoyed by police and emergency services should be extended to Britain's intelligence officers. As well as spies, vehicles used to carry organs for transplant, bomb disposal units and mountain rescue teams are also likely to be added to the list, the BBC says.
More than one wag has suggested the exemption would add a daring new excuse to the list of reasons for speeding. "Sorry I was speeding officer, I'm a spy," sounds so much more suave than "my speedometer's on the blink".