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…
Red Wall Labour backbencher Jonathan Brash told GB News that Starmer should resign:
“I’m completely fed up about it, and I think it’s got to the point now where I genuinely think that, as far as the Prime Minister is concerned, it’s not a case of if, it’s when.”