Briefings from Downing Street have coincided with the launch of a report from Starmerite think tank Labour Together which advocates for a “digital ID card.” They’re calling it the “BritCard.” Sigh…
Defra secretary Steve Reed said this morning: “It’s absolutely something that we are looking at, and that we should be looking at” while Downing Street says plans are being reviewed. Digital IDs are being marketed as a method to clamp down on illegal immigration and form forgery…
In news that will surprise no one the report’s author is Kirsty Innes, who previously worked at a senior level at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. As of very recently in fact – Innes only left in October 2023 after four years at the institute…
Innes – previously a Treasury civil servant – is with this new report reheating old TBI proposals for mass digital IDs. She was the author of a notorious June 2021 TBI report which pushed for the introduction of vaccine passports. ID cards through the back door…
Blair’s campaign rears its head every few years – under Labour it may finally make it through. Some extremely lucrative taxpayer-funded contracts to be handed out if Starmer gives this the green light…
Justice minister Alex Davies-Jones told the Today Programme it wasn’t ‘appropriate’ to ask whether or not David Lammy was shopping prior to DPMQs instead of trying to sort out the released prisoner:
“He was preparing for Deputy Prime Minister’s Questions. He was preparing to stand in for the Prime Minister, the first ever black person to do so… He cracked a joke because his poppy had fallen off this suit, which he also addressed during the Deputy Prime Minister’s Questions… I don’t think it’s appropriate to get into the weeds of if he was shopping or not in the morning.”