Didn’t the law change a few years ago, creating a new offence of permitting someone to drive without insurance? A strict liability offence IIRC, resulting in a fine and points if true. So I can see why a dealer employee would be unwilling to take a customers word for the fact they were insured, as they’d be the one on the hook for permitting the car to go out of the dealership without insurance. Much easier to insist on dealer insurance I guess.
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