‘Reverse Midas touch’: Starmer plan prompts collapse in support for digital IDs | Labour

Public support for Digital IDS collapsed after he explained the entrances of Keir Starmer, which was defined as a symptom of the Prime Minister of the Prime Minister.

Net support for digital identity cards fell from 35% to -14%, the weekend after Starmer’s announcement.

The findings show that the proposal significantly suffer from the relationship with a non -popular government. In June, 53% of the voters participating in the survey said that they were in favor of digital identity cards for all British, and 19% opposed.

Starmer said that on Friday, he planned to present a national digital identity plan and offers a “tremendous opportunity to make it difficult to work illegally in this country” for the UK.

After Starmer’s weekend announcement, only 31% of the respondents supported the plan and said that they were opposed to 45%. 32% of them said they were strongly opposed. More than 2.6 million people They signed a petition Against the promotion of identities.

The advocates of a national digital identity scheme are disappointed in the form of policy and believe that it can never be implemented.

More in Common’s survey shows that the dissatisfaction of the government and the people is behind the collapse. 58% of those who think that Starmer did a bad job because the Prime Minister opposed digital identities found that they support them. On the other hand, 71% of those who thought Starmer had done a good job supported digital identities and opposed 14%.

The figures show how the Prime Minister encountered a war uphill to gain public support for his policies and leadership. Personal approval ratings have fallen to a record low level and a recent survey shows that it is now the most popular prime minister.

. Survey by IPSOS on Saturday 13% of voters were dissatisfied and 79% were unsatisfied -Net -66. This was the lowest level of satisfaction recorded by the questionnaire for any prime minister dating back to 1977, months before the 2024 general elections, Rishi altar and worse than the previous lowest levels recorded by John Major in August 1994.

More commonly general manager Luke Tryl said: “Digital identity is not popular in principle. In the beginning of this summer, we supported the majority. However, in the most open sign of the government’s low stance, now seems to suffer from the reverse midas touch: after the government plans, support has fallen.

“If the government is going to rebuild support for digital identity, it will have to start with a clearer usage. The risk is that a policy with the potential to become popular in the face of organized opposition becomes another millstone for the government.”

Peter Hyman, a former adviser of Starmer and Tony Blair, said that a Labor Party conference event in Liverpool will be “dead in water within six months because the ministers did not filed a convincing lawsuit for them.

Hyman said that the opponents of the plan were the leader and that Downing Street should respond to the conspiracy theories that proliferate to “nail all objections” and save politics.

Ministers, digital identity cards will be used to prove a person’s right to live and work in the UK and will be mandatory for anyone who wants to work, he said. The government is concerned that the relative ease of finding illegal work in the shadow economy of England is one of the factors that encourages people to make illegal and dangerous journeys on the channel.

Photography identities will be stored on smartphones in a similar way to digital debit cards and will contain information about the name, residence status, date of birth and nationality of the owner. They will not have to access health services or prosperity payments.

Senior ministers told The Guardian, the release of identity cards before the next election, and that people were initially used to prove their right to work, and were used before expanding the data to facilitate access to public services and detect fraud.

“One of the consequences of having an identity card is always a brainless thing to reduce the ability of people to deceive the system,” he said to the Interior Minister Shabana Mahmood. While the reform of the plan opposed England, the conservatives called it “cheating.”