Russia’s ruled by e-scooters

A FRIEND living in Moscow wrote to her UK MP pointing out that e-scooters have more or less taken over the pavements of the Russian capital, making life very worrying for anyone walking with small children. She warned that if we legalise these things in Britain, as the Government seems to want to do, this will happen here too. Her MP promptly wrote to Transport Minister Rachel Maclean. After emitting a lot of official boilerplate, the Minister told my friend that she ‘might want to raise particular instances of dangerous e-scooter use with her local police force’. Has Ms Maclean ever met the Moscow police?