Still Waters Posted December 12, 2009 #1 Share Posted December 12, 2009 Alistair Darling has cast doubt on the need for ID cards for every Briton. The Chancellor suggested that biometric passports, which carry the same information as ID cards, would be sufficient. In an interview in The Daily Telegraph today, he said there was “probably no need” to “go further” than the new passports, paving the way for ID cards to be scrapped.Although he claimed later that he wasn’t going beyond existing plans, his intervention could spell the death knell for the project. Read more... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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