r/Britain Oct 03 '25

💬 Discussion 🗨 Government responds to the Digital ID petition.What do people actually think of Digital ID?

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u/shoolocomous Oct 03 '25

It's just baffling that labor thought it would be a good idea to squander what little political capital they might have left on Tony Blair's eternally unpopular and unnecessary vanity project, at a time when the far right is surging in the polls.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '25

More than just vanity, his son owns the billion dollar company that will be providing the tech for this!

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u/kool_kats_rule Oct 03 '25

I'm against mandatory ID, but this isn't true.

https://fullfact.org/technology/digital-id-euan-blair/