Ex-MI6 boss backs digital ID cards to help deter small boat crossings | News

Former MI6 boss Sir Alex Younger supports calls for digital identity cards that will help deterd their small boat crossings.

Last month, Downing Street reportedly investigated the proposal to introduce digital identity cards to every adult in the UK to control the right to live and work in the UK.

“It is definitely clear that people should have digital identity,” he said. BBC News Night On Thursday, July 10.

“Let’s stop shouting at the French; Most of them are on us,” he added.

Sir Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron’s French President at the end of a three -day historical state visit to a “groundbreaking” one, a one -time migration agreement.