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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Will Durrant

THE TRUTH ABOUT: Argument for rolling out creepy digital id too optimistic to be convincing - The Untold Story

Technology Secretary Liz Kendall has told MPs the plan is ‘about giving people greater agency over their lives’ (Alamy/PA) -

Digital ID plans are “frankly creepy”, a Conservative shadow minister has warned, as he called for “evidence” that a new system will help crack down on illegal working.

Shadow science minister Viscount Camrose warned that the Government’s argument for rolling out a digital ID system was “too optimistic to be convincing”.

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