10 h. ago Fresh blow for Keir Starmer as major firm rules out helping Labour introduce digital ID cards because 'they don't have public support'

Louis Mosley, the UK boss of Palantir Technologies, noted how Labour 's manifesto prior to last year's general election made no mention of such a scheme.

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35 h. ago Starmer only has 'breathing space' until May elections after Labour conference... as Budget looms, Cabinet 'revolts on digital ID push' and resentment festers over reshuffle

Ministers and activists publicly rallied round the PM at the gathering in Liverpool, as Keir Starmer tried to lift the mood with brutal barbs at Nigel Farage .

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3 d. ago Pub renamed The George Orwell and projects 'Big Brother is watching you' slogan to punters in protest over Labour's digital ID cards

Signage with Sir Keir Starmer 's face has been placed on the building of the rebranded The James Atherton boozer in New Brighton, Merseyside.

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3 d. ago Sir Keir Starmer says 'a new world is coming' as he announces major NHS change

The National Health Service could look completely different – with new plans to make 'digital hospitals' as shared by Sir Keir Starmer in the Labour Party Conference

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3 d. ago The Three B***ends pub renamed again to 'The George Orwell' in response to digital ID plans

The James Atherton pub, in Victoria Road, New Brighton, Wirral, was given its new name by owner Daniel Davies in response to the government's introduction of digital ID

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4 d. ago John Rentoul answers your questions on Labour’s future – from Burnham to Reform and digital ID

Chief political commentator John Rentoul answers your questions on Labour’s leadership woes, the rise of Reform, and what it means for Keir Starmer’s premiership

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4 d. ago ‘Starmer’s poll tax’: Piers Corbyn rallies against digital ID outside Labour conference

Piers Corbyn took to the labour conference in Liverpool to protest against Labour's plans for implementing digital ID's in a bid to tackle illegal migration claiming this could lead to financial control.

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5 d. ago ‘No to Digital ID’ protests held near Labour Party conference in Liverpool

Protesters gathered outside the Labour Party conference in Liverpool on Sunday (28 September) to oppose plans for a new national digital ID card.

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5 d. ago We asked people in Swansea if they approved of mandatory digital IDs

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's Labour Government has announced the plan for digital IDs as part of efforts to crack down on people working illegally in the UK

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6 d. ago The big brother local council: It's using facial recognition, AI surveillance and even drones to combat fly

He might have been dead for 75 years, but it's been a hell of a month for George Orwell, the author of Nineteen Eighty-Four and its vision of the ultimate authoritarian state.

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6 d. ago Labour's digital ID will be 'the bedrock of our society', says one of Keir Starmer's top aides

Labour 's new digital ID will form 'the bedrock of the modern state', one of the PM's top aides said today as a petition against the policy passed 1.4 million signatures.

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7 d. ago When will new UK digital ID card be introduced and how will it work?

The digital ID card marks the government’s latest attempt to crack down on illegal migration

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7 d. ago Starmer faces revolt by Labour MPs as he takes huge gamble on compulsory digital ID cards saying people cannot be 'squeamish' about tough rules

Keir Starmer confirmed the plans at a 'global progress' summit in London insisting it is an 'enormous opportunity' to get on top of illegal immigration.

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8 d. ago Will I get fined for not having a national ID card, and what if I don't have a smartphone? How the scheme could work and the massive pitfalls it faces

How would a digital identity card scheme operate, if Labour introduces a requirement for every adult worker in Britain to have one?

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9 d. ago Would YOU trust all your data to a Labour 'superapp'? Inside plans for the new digital ID dreamed up to kerb illegal immigration

Days before Sir Keir Starmer is expected to announce a digital ID scheme, Tony Blair's think-tank tells him to make it a 'flagship programme' used by everyone over 18 in the country.

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1 week ago Starmer set to announce digital ID cards ‘within days’ to curb illegal migration

Plans for digital ID cards could be unveiled at the next Labour Party Conference

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1 week ago Russell Martin can't escape Rangers fan protests as team talk to be drowned out

Raging punters including the Union Bears will stage a protest outside the front doors before kick-off against Hibs

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1 week ago Starmer will unveil digital ID scheme at Labour's conference as he bids to tackle migrant crisis

The PM has been 'exploring' the idea and, while finer details of the scheme are supposedly still being ironed out, an announcement could come as early as the annual meet.

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2 w. ago Trump pub opens in London as safe haven for MAGA punters with Charlie Kirk room

EXCLUSIVE: Donald Trump MAGA fans gathered in a West London boozer to raise a glass to their hero after the landlord renamed the pub the Trump Arms and opened a wing dedicated to assassination victim Charlie Kirk

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2 w. ago Nothing prepared me for the child poverty I see in Britain. November’s budget can and must halt its inexorable rise | Gordon Brown

Homes without heating, bedrooms with beds. If we are to offer any hope to the children of austerity, the next few weeks will be decisiveRun-down housing estates in Britain’s former industrial heartlands remind us of the poverty described by George Orwell in The Road to Wigan Pier in 1937 – but these days there is no Orwell to chronicle what the arithmetic of deprivation means for families condemned to lives of poverty.Millions of children, as the children’s commissioner for England, Dame Rachel de Souza, told us this summer, are faring very badly, living in “almost Dickensian levels of poverty”. And what she calls the striking awareness children have of being poor requires us to find a modern-day Dickens to hear their voices.Gordon Brown was UK prime minister from 2007 to 2010 Continue reading...

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