Compulsory ID cards will become a ‘tool of suppression’ for the state, Nigel Farage said yesterday.
The Reform UK leader said his party would oppose any attempt by Labour to introduce mandatory digital ID.
Downing Street revealed this week that ministers are looking at digital IDs as part of plans to clamp down on illegal working, in the hope it makes the UK less attractive to migrants thinking of entering the country illegally.
But Mr Farage warned it would have no impact on the crisis and insisted it could end up being used to curtail traditional British freedoms. He told the Daily Mail: ‘ID cards would make no difference to illegal immigration whatsoever.
‘Why would I trust these two parties in government after what they did with vaccine passports and much else?
