Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Friday that digital ID will become mandatory in order to be employed in the United Kingdom.
The new ID is part of a government plan to allegedly help fight illegal immigration. The idea is that illegal employment is what is attracting many migrants to make the treacherous trip across the English Channel to move to the U.K.
‘You will not be able to work in the United Kingdom if you do not have digital ID.’
Starmer said the IDs would not only make it more difficult to work in the U.K. illegally but that it would offer “countless benefits” to citizens. The BBC reported that senior minister Darren Jones claimed the IDs could also be “the bedrock of the modern state.”
The prime minister made the announcement at the Global Progressive Action Conference in London on Friday, stating, “Our immigration system does need to be fair if we want to maintain that binding contract that our politics is built on.”
Starmer continued, “And that is why today I am announcing this government will make a new, free of charge digital ID mandatory for the right to work by the end of this parliament. Let me spell that out: You will not be able to work in the United Kingdom if you do not have digital ID.”
“It’s as simple as that,” the leader sternly stated, before making a moral argument. “Because decent, pragmatic, fair-minded people, they want us to tackle the issues that they see around them. And, of course, the truth is, we won’t solve our problems if we don’t also take on the root causes.”
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The knighted leader continued to claim that the move was an attempt by the government to have “control over its borders.”
“We do need to know who is in our country,” Starmer added.
“It is not compassionate left-wing politics to rely on labor that exploits foreign workers and undercuts fair wages.”
Jonathan Brash, a member of parliament from Hartlepool and politician in Starmer’s party, said that it was important to “explode the myths and conspiracy theories being spread on Digital ID.”
“It will make our country safer, fairer and more secure,” Brash said on his X page, along with an image of a political poster that said the same.
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“This is a battle for freedom,” English reporter Lewis Brackpool told Blaze News. “Liberalism is to blame. This attitude of ‘live and let live’ caused this freedom-robbing policy. It’s time for Brits to take a stand.”
Brackpool called for peaceful resistance while pointing to his work with Restore Britain, which has already begun investigating the government’s intentions behind the project.
“The British public deserves full transparency on Digital ID drifting into surveillance and financial control,” he wrote on X.
In early September, Blaze News reported that both French President Emmanuel Macron and former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair were urging Starmer to consider making digital IDs mandatory.
The Daily Mail reported that Blair was pushing the idea in backroom conversations, continuing his early-2000s attempt to push the IDs on the country’s citizenry.
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