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Starmer Backs UK-Wide Digital ID to Verify Right to Work and Rent

The UK government plans to introduce the mandatory BritCard digital ID to reduce illegal working and migration, with illegal working arrests up 50%, officials said.

  • The UK government plans to introduce a digital ID system that will be mandatory for proving the right to work and rent properties.
  • The digital IDs will be held on people's phones and contain information like name, date of birth, nationality or residency status, and a photo, but carrying it will not be compulsory.
  • While the government says it will improve access to services, some groups like Sinn Féin have criticized the proposal as an attack on the Good Friday Agreement.
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This is a great novelty for the British, whose opposition was linked to their fears of the lack of security of the cards and their violation of civil liberties. ...

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Digital ID will tackle illegal working and deter migrants, Starmer insists

The plans envisage digital ID being stored on smartphones in the same way as contactless payment cards or the NHS app

·Belfast, United Kingdom
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Despite the broad resistance in society, the socialist government of Great Britain wants to introduce the Digital ID. Shamefully, of course. Even though Tony Blair failed. The British left turns out to be good vicarious agents of the globalists. The globalists around the World Economic Forum (WEF) have found in the socialist head of government Keir Starmer a willing vicarious agent for their dystopian future plans. Because now a Digital ID is to…

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The Telegraph broke the news in London, United Kingdom on Thursday, September 25, 2025.
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