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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
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The government says this, they want digital ID to make everyday life easier for people
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ensuring that public services 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
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World War wouldn't want to be asked for papers in Britain, and why should they? And I think all
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the privacy issues that you've raised so eloquently stand. But the politics here is the government is
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trying to, in my words, strip the barnacles off the boat. They're trying to drop everything which
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is controversial, which is a pointless row about with civil liberties groups, with perhaps
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you yourself, Bev, GB News viewers and listeners. They don't want to have any row about state control
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The nonsense about state control can end because the digital ID card is falling away
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It'll simply be a different way to prove who you are. You've got your passport, driving license, 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, what has rather been a very toxifying past four months
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Well, it's a big mess, really, isn't it? Let me know what you think at home. GBNews.com forward slash your say
