Will the compulsory ID card lobby ever give up? For more than two decades it has been trying to exploit every national crisis to push its product on the country: terrorism, violent crime, Covid and now illegal migration. Apparently the answer to all of them is to force all of us to carry about a digital ID on our phones.

Digital IDs will do precisely nothing to slaughter the real swine in this case: the European Convention on Human Rights.

What difference would that make? Will boatloads of illegal migrants now be turned back mid-Channel because they are unable to show coastguards their digital ID? Er, no. Will asylum applications be speeded up so that those who fail can be returned much more quickly? No chance. Will it now become possible to return foreign rapists and murderers to their

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