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It should be 100% possible if the conduit is installed correctly. Best practice is to complete the installation of the conduit system before starting to pull any cable in at all. If there are kinks and snags that prevent that approach, or a lack of drawing-in points, then the conduit is not being installed with adequate care, which is spoiling one of its advantages.
No doubt there are cheap & nasty accessories on sale locally just as there are are cheap and nasty 13A plugs which I avoid like the plague. One can spec higher quality equipment than the locals generally use, without having to go to a completely different system. I actually rather like unfused plugs because they are more reliable and less prone to overheating on high loads. Try good quality examples of Schuko, NEMA 5-20, and BS1363 on a 3kW heater for an extended period and see which lasts better / maintains lower contact resistance / lower heat dissipation. OK, that's only one use-case and there are arguably situations where the ability to limit fault I²t is desirable, but once again there's no single system that has all the advantages.
I'm not trying to shoot down your approach, merely understand the motivation and offer my own outlook as a foil. I've worked in 18 countries and designed systems to meet very different and sometimes conflicting standards. Having spent hours testing and evaluating different brands of foreign wiring materials against both objective specs and to reach subjective verdicts, the general belief that many British sparks seem to espouse, that our equipment is superior in every important way, doesn't hold water.
