I still don't like it but I'm willing to bend over.
The thing is since 1975 I've never been asked for my driving license and now I've got to carry it around with me everywhere.
I don’t think that you HAVE to carry it at all times, I do, but I’ve never been asked for it in U.K. since I got the photo one.
My wife was stopped for speeding in Arkansas once, but she’d left her licence in our rented apartment in Memphis TN
She had her passport with her, and I showed the cop my driving licence so he could see that we had a shared surname.
He said, “Are you named on the car rental agreement?”, when I said “yes”, he said, “Do me and Arkansas a favour bud, you take over, your wife’s a nice lady, but she’s in too much of a hurry.”
And that was it, apart from the obligatory, “You folks have a nice day now, ya hear?”
I’ve had the occasional tug by traffic cops in U.K. when I was younger, but you were allowed X days to produce it.