US EditionStarmer Backs UK-Wide Digital ID to Verify Right to Work and Rent
The UK government aims to curb illegal employment and simplify identity checks with a free digital ID system expected by 2029, following global examples like India.
- 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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LONDON - A digital identity card will be mandatory for those who want to work in Great Britain: this announcement by Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who presented the measure as a way to...
Keir Starmer Forces UK Populace to Have Digital IDs
Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister of the unfortunate UK populace, is forcing people to have digital IDs if they want to work. Boris Johnson wants to be the leader of the anti-digital ID movement but he’s the leader who set the UK on this path. He locked them down and was quite authoritarian. He […] The post Keir Starmer Forces UK Populace to Have Digital IDs appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.
UK government makes digital ID mandatory to get a job: 'Safer, fairer and more secure'
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…
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