ID card scheme in doubt after omission from terror report
James Kirkup writes in The Scotsman:
Identity cards have not been included in the government’s definitive account of Britain’s counter-terrorism strategy, fuelling speculation that Tony Blair’s controversial scheme is in serious trouble.
The Home Office’s Countering International Terrorism: The United Kingdom’s Strategy report released this week lists all of the ways the government is responding to threat of extremism.
Plans for “biometric” visas and passports are included, but the proposed ID card system has been given no place in the strategy, despite repeated claims from the Prime Minister and the Home Office that the cards will enhance national security.
NO2ID’s Phil Booth is quoted:
“It appears that only in Tony Blair’s mind and in the unsubstantiated statements of consecutive home secretaries are ID cards of any use in countering terrorism.”
September 18th, 2006 at 09:14
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