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GB News understands that the government has performed its 13th U-turn and will row back on its plans to make it mandatory to have this digital ID to get a job
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In September, Sir Keir Starmer said this. I'm announcing this government will make a new free of charge digital ID mandatory for the right to work by the end of this parliament
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Let me spell that out. you will not be able to work in the United Kingdom if you do not have digital ID
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It's as simple as that. Because decent, pragmatic, fair-minded people, they want us to tackle the issues that they see around them
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Well done, everybody. Well done, everybody that managed to get that turned around
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I spoke to Alan Miller and I'm going to be showing you that interview a little later in the show
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But it seems now apparently providing a passport or an e is going to suffice when you applying for a job up to 2029 And just a few hours ago the Prime Minister Migration Minister Mike Tapp was asked about this as the story broke
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A lot being discussed behind the scenes, but I'm very clear on this. There will be mandatory digital checks for work
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Well, moments ago, I caught up with GB News' political editor, Christopher Hope, who explained the situation as well as any of us can possibly understand it
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Christopher Hope, well, it feels like cause for celebration today for those of us who were saying that digital ID was a bad idea
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Is this actually a U-turn as far as your political perspective goes
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or is it just a marketing change for this project? Well, Bev, here in Westminster it's been called the 13th U-turn by this government
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It comes off the family farm tax last month. others too on the heating for pensioners in their homes
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They couldn get the benefits planned through last July This is significant Now the government has said though we going to make it mandatory to get a job in Britain by 2029 the next election expected then They said you need to
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have a digital ID card. That is not enough. Well, for some people, that will be a physical ID card
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for those who are not on their mobile phones, but others, it would be a form of digital ID
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They've changed that tonight. We're now told by government they're going to make right to work
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checks digital so you can prove who you are using for example a passport with a chip in
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that would be enough so that they're removing the requirement to have a digital id card the
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government says this they want digital id to make everyday life easier for people
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ensuring that public services are more are more personal joined up and effective but also remaining
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inclusive that last part is so important because we were facing with as many as 3 million people
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not on the internet not on mobile phones that have an internet device on them How would they get how would they find a job in Sainsbury in their 60s Would they have to hold show some form of papers And we getting near of course the generation who remembers the Second World War wouldn want to be asked for papers in Britain and why
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should they? And I think all the privacy issues that you've raised so eloquently stand
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But the politics here is the government is trying to, in my words, strip the barnacles
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off the boat. They're trying to drop everything which is controversial, which is
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a pointless row about with civil liberties groups, with perhaps you yourself
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Bev, GB News viewers and listeners. They don't want to have any row about
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state control. The nonsense about state control can end because the digital ID card is
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falling away. It'll simply be a different way to prove who you are
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You've got your passport, driving licence, and now you'll have a digital ID card
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So it's a different way of doing it. They're trying to detoxify, frankly
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what has rather been a very toxifying past four months. Well, it's a big mess, really, isn't it
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Let me know what you think at home. GBNews.com forward slash your say
