Zia Yusuf slams ‘appalling’ Digital ID decision after Rachel Reeves' £26bn tax raid

Reform's policy chief slammed Labour's "appalling" decision to cut the Home Office's budget to be "allocated to Digital ID". Sir Keir Starmer announced the party's flagship policy ahead of their Liverpool conference in October, causing Mr Yusuf to blast that the policy had "no electoral mandate whatsoever". Speaking at a post-Budget brief putting Rachel Reeves' Budget on blast, Mr Yusuf added: "And they are they are taking that £1.8billion out of the Home Office budget, which is the only Government department whose budget has been frozen in real terms, making a mockery, frankly, of Shabana Mahmood's statements. "At a time when immigration is the number one issue in the country, what do Labour do? "They basically freeze Home Office funding and take £1.8billion of that budget to spend on digital ID, which is appalling. Net immigration reaffirmed to be up at 340,000 in 2029."WATCH THE CLIP ABOVE FOR MORE