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…
Former leader of the SNP in Westminster Ian Blackford told Times Radio why he believes Nicola Sturgeon’s claim that she spent no time in the kitchen and therefore didn’t see any of her husband’s purchases:
“She doesn’t have a passion for cooking.”