Learner drivers are waiting up to five months for a test, spending hours searching for cancellations and paying extra for apps that might help them, research suggests.

More than one in five (21 per cent) drivers polled by Confused.com felt under pressure to pass because rebooking would take too long or cost too much, as more than one in four (27 per cent) had to wait two to four months between booking and taking their test.

Lulu Rose, 22, from London, told The i Paper that an “exhausting” combination of Covid and a “gridlock” of backlogs at various different test centres meant she spent five years and hundreds of pounds trying to pass her test

A shortage of instructors and examiners have also led to long waiting lists and lack of tests.

Ms Rose turned 17 in November 2019 so was not

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