Keir Starmer to announce plans for digital ID scheme

Sir Keir Starmer’s speech on Friday is expected to announce a compulsory digital identity plan plans throughout the UK.

According to senior figures in the government, the Prime Minister believes that it will help illegal work and modernize the state.

The practicality of the program will also be subject to a consultation to look at how to work for those who do not have a smartphone or passport.

The attempt to introduce the identity cards of the previous Workers’ Government was ultimately blocked by the Conservative-Liberal Democratic Coalition.

But at the beginning of this month, Sir Keir He said in an interview He thought that the argument has been “continuing” since then.

“We all have a lot more digital identity than 20 years ago, and I think it plays a psychologically different role.”

Reports claim that the government plans to use a new plan to control the right to live and work in the UK.

These controls are currently based on physical documents, but since 2022, the roads that have completed online checks for some people.

Last year government Rejected A digital identity proposed by former work prime minister Sir Tony Blair.