Labour Reheats TBI’s Digital ID Plan in Fresh Blairite Push – Guido Fawkes

Labour Reheats TBI’s Digital ID Plan in Fresh Blairite Push

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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…