A North Korean escapee recently told me about the ‘slavery cards’ he and his fellow countrymen were forced to carry. These cards allowed the state to know everything about you; they could stop you working or walking the streets without fear. They ultimately owned your existence. You can imagine his reaction to Keir Starmer’s new ID scheme .

Wherever ID is introduced it is because the state does not trust its people

Starmer’s digital ID plan is a façade to a deeper problem: unlike the North Korean escapee, many in Britain seem to have forgotten what made us so free. Once, ID cards were tantamount to the death of England – and ‘who lives if England dies?’. Now, we are at best evenly split, at worst solidly in favour of ID cards – one recent poll has support at 57 per cent. A reigniting o

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