{"id":314730,"date":"2025-09-04T05:55:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T05:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=314730"},"modified":"2025-09-06T05:52:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T05:52:50","slug":"starmer-pushes-digital-id-cards-for-all-after-macron-demands-action-to-tackle-scourge-of-illegal-working-in-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=314730","title":{"rendered":"Starmer Pushes Digital ID Cards for All After Macron Demands Action to Tackle Scourge of Illegal Working in Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Will Jones \u2013 The Daily Sceptic Sept 2, 2025<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/h1>\n

Keir Starmer is pushing for everyone in Britain to be forced to sign up for a digital ID card after\u00a0Emmanuel Macron\u00a0demanded action to tackle the scourge of illegal working in Britain. The Mail <\/em>has more<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sir\u00a0Keir Starmer\u00a0told the Cabinet he would be \u201cexploring options around digital ID\u201d as part of a wider package of reforms designed to make it harder for illegal migrants to live and work in this country.<\/p>\n

Downing Street\u00a0confirmed Ministers are examining proposals for a digital ID scheme 15 years after the idea was abandoned following an outcry about the impact on civil liberties.<\/p>\n

Under one option, anyone applying for a new job would be required to produce their digital ID to demonstrate that they have the right to live and work in this country. Similar provisions could also be introduced for those moving to new accommodation, making a benefit claim or seeking to access public services.<\/p>\n

Labour ruled out ID cards as recently as July this year, with Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds saying the idea was \u201cnot our approach\u201d.<\/p>\n

Sir Keir has been told by President Macron to address the \u201cpull factors\u201d attracting migrants to Britain in return for French help in stopping the boats.<\/p>\n

Whitehall sources said\u00a0Tony Blair\u00a0has also continued to push the idea behind the scenes.<\/p>\n

And, with Sir Keir coming under intense pressure to be seen to be acting on illegal migration, he has now changed tack.<\/p>\n

The PM\u2019s official spokesman told reporters that the Government would \u201calways look at what works\u201d.<\/p>\n

Asked if the idea could eventually mean compulsory ID cards for all, he said: \u201cWe are willing to look at what works when it comes to tackling illegal migration.\u201d<\/p>\n

Questioned about the civil liberties row that ended the last bid to introduce compulsory ID cards, the spokesman said Ministers believed \u201cthe debate has changed since the last time we had this discussion\u201d, with people more relaxed about the idea of having to prove their identity online.<\/p>\n

The idea is set to be discussed at an emergency meeting chaired by Sir Keir aimed at accelerating work to shut down the UK\u2019s 200 migrant hotels.<\/p>\n

Worth reading in full<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As has been pointed out elsewhere, the spectre of illegal migration is being used as a pretext for the introduction of more extensive powers of surveillance <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":311949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,52,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Current_Affairs","category-Implants_and_surveillance_technology","category-Surveillance"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=314730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314731,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314730\/revisions\/314731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/311949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=314730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=314730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=314730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}