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Keir Starmer: ID cards are a recipe for repression
Digital IDs don’t reduce migration but they do open the door to authoritarian control – it’s time to fight back
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Tell Keir Starmer to scrap his ID card scheme
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Campaign overview
Keir Starmer wants to fend off the challenge from Reform UK with compulsory ID cards he claims will make our borders “more secure”. But this half-baked scheme would cost billions and wouldn’t do anything to reduce migration. And with Reform on the rise, it risks handing the far right a new tool for tyranny. We’re coming together to defend hard-won freedoms.
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26 September 2025
Starmer’s desperate rush for digital IDs is a recipe for repression
ID cards won’t reduce migration and will put trans rights at risk. But that’s not the biggest cost of Starmer’s half-baked scheme, says Cat MacLean.