ER Editor: Quelle surprise. We had originally taken this digital ID policy to be yet another part of Waking Up the Normies. And another opportunity to put the Starmer government in a poor light.
The plans that remain, to verify people for work with secure ID such as a passport or e-visa, would seem to be reasonably motivated given the amount of illegals in the country with easy-to-fake paper IDs.
Has this been a propaganda exercise in part to advance Rupert Lowe? Nothing would surprise us at this point.
I am off for a very large drink to celebrate the demise of mandatory Digital ID. pic.twitter.com/0GUPdLqbxn
— Rupert Lowe MP (@RupertLowe10) January 13, 2026
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A reminder from last year when the digital ID plans were announced —
The Conspiracy Theorists were right again…
The UNELECTED PSYCHOPATHS of the World Economic Forum and Keir Starmer have OFFICIALLY MANDATED ‘Digital ID’s’ across the United Kingdom stating that “No one will be able to work without one of these Digital IDs”… pic.twitter.com/nnPBk4WNVn
— Liz Churchill (@liz_churchill10) September 26, 2025
Another reminder —
We’ve fought an intrusive Digital ID scheme before – “vaccine passports”
In 2022 we presented two petitions w/360,000 signatures to 10 Downing Street
Within the month, vaccine passports were effectively scrapped, and within two months the mandate on NHS workers reversed too pic.twitter.com/ZpqZ0Sr85L
— Together (@Togetherdec) August 15, 2025
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UK government rolls back key part of digital ID plans
Workers will be able to use other identification for right to work, meaning digital form not mandatory
PETER WALKER & PIPPA CRERAR for THE GUARDIAN
Ministers have rolled back plans for a central element of the proposed digital ID plans, leaving open the possibility that people will be able to use other forms of identification to prove their right to work.
This will mean that the IDs, announced to some controversy in September, will no longer be mandatory for working-age people, given that the only planned obligatory element was to prove the right to work in the UK.
While officials said this was not a U-turn, just a tweak before a detailed consultation on how the system will function, it will be viewed as the latest in a series of policy changes, including on business rates and inheritance tax for farmers.
When Keir Starmer announced the proposal for digital IDs by 2029 they were billed as voluntary, with the exception that they would be mandatory for people to show they were legally allowed to work.
This was portrayed by the prime minister as a main benefit of the plan. “Digital ID is an enormous opportunity for the UK,” he said. “It will make it tougher to work illegally in this country, making our borders more secure.”
People will still be required to verify their ID digitally, by a process still to be finished, but this could involve existing documents such as a passport. The hope is that this would crack down on illegal working while avoiding the controversy of an in effect compulsory ID system.
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The Conservatives called the move “yet another humiliating U-turn from the government”.
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Lisa Smart, the Liberal Democrats’ Cabinet Office spokesperson, said: “No 10 must be bulk ordering motion sickness tablets at this rate to cope with all their U-turns.
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A government source said the revised plans would not change the main principle of the original proposal, in which checks for eligibility to work were to be made tougher, in line with systems in other countries.
Currently, they said, many were based on employers seeing paper copies of documents, whereas under the new system it was likely to involve a digital check of a passport or e-visa.
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Featured image source: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jan/13/government-rolls-back-digital-identity-card-plans
Featured image source: https://news.sky.com/story/government-u-turns-on-mandatory-digital-id-cards-for-workers-13493917
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