New identity verification scheme aimed at deterring illegal migration is reportedly to become optional

There will still be digital checks on those starting a new job, but people will not need to hold a digital ID.

Workers will be able to use other identification for right to work, meaning digital form not mandatory

New identity verification scheme aimed at deterring illegal migration is reportedly to become optional

LONDON: Britain is set to drop plans to make it mandatory for workers to hold a digital identity document, The Times newspaper, the BBC and other media reported on Tuesday,…

By watering down his plans to make digital ID compulsory in yet anorther policy U-turn, the prime minister is showing that he’s lost control of his government’s agenda, writes…

Lord Blunkett ‘disappointed but not surprised’ by the governments latest U-turn

Former Labour home secretary David Blunkett says scheme was doomed to ‘run into the sand’ because PM ‘failed to make the case’ for it