Starmer’s Revival of Digital ID Sparks Fury at Home and Abroad

Nigel Farage has attacked the scheme as “a means of controlling the population.” [Photo:]A demonstrator holds a placard during a march against the implementation of digital ID cards, in central London on October 18, 2025. CHRIS J RATCLIFFE / AFP. Campaigners feared that the government’s scrapping of its plans for digital identity cards in January was not the end of the story. And they were right to do so. Despite immense backlash, Wednesday’s King’s Speech—a ceremonial address in which the monarch reads a speech written by the government, setting out its main objectives over the next parliamentary term—confirmed that ministers...