Starmer’s Digital ID announcement is getting no love from the Labour Cabinet. Did no one tell Starmer and Labour Together that this was one of Blair’s worse ideas…
Science Secretary Liz Kendall has said nothing publicly supportive of the announcement despite DSIT currently leading the brief, the Home Office having politely rejected responsibility for its implementation. The Cabinet as a whole is ignoring Ditigal ID despite Labour’s comms team preparing graphics etc for use online…
Only three Cabinet ministers including Starmer have even acknowledged the PM’s speech announcing Digital ID at the Progressive Action Summit. The same summit where even Mark Carney stressed the importance of delivering tax cuts to voters…
Guido calculates that is a support rate of 13%. Starmer was unable to say how this system – a successor to the botched OneLogin service of the GDS – would actually help deal with illegal immigration-related crime. None of the Cabinet’s heavy hitters have touched the policy. Who wants that chalice. As hacks are swept up in Labour Conference and lose interest in Friday’s announcement the governing party’s policy offering is falling into complete incoherence…