Its not always been the case while you still have a valid current mot (before the extension existed)
If i go 2 weeks before my old mot expires and it fails, i still have 2 weeks mot left from the previous year, it never just instantly stopped the day it failed.
Now it seems this has changed.
Being legally able to drive away to a place of repair, is not what he told me, he told me driving away anywhere is illegal, so that wasn`t true.
And its only a small amount of play in the ball joint, it takes a crowbar to get even the slightest movement from it.