UK leader Starmer to announce digital ID card plans, media reports say

Starmer's office did not comment on the reports, which said he would announce the plan at a policy conference on Friday. In the 2000s Starmer's Labour Party, then led by Tony Blair, attempted to introduce a physical identity card, but the plan was eventually dropped by Blair's successor, Gordon Brown, after years of opposition that called it an infringement of civil liberties. Britons have not been issued with identity cards since their abolition after World War Two, and typically...