Oh dear, this old chestnut again.
Roamingyak is right - SORN the vehicle online once out of the UK and insure it locally, at least for 3rd party risks. That's what I did, and all I thought I could do, and so did many others on this thread.
Where what I did differed to Roamingyak's advice was that I re-entered the EU at the Russia/Latvia border and didn't want to run the risk of something happening between Latvia and the UK and then having to claim against a UK insurance policy with no UK MoT (and therefore no Road Tax either) and messing up my insurance record / getting a fine and a criminal record for the future. So I got the vehicle insured by buying a month's worth of EU Green Card 3rd party at the Russia/Latvia border and then drove straight to a prearranged MoT once off the ferry at Dover.
If re-entering the EU via Morocco/Spain then that might be more of a problem, given the greater likelihood of getting pulled over by the Spanish police for a paperwork check in a UK-registered vehicle!
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