In an opinion piece in the Daily Telegraph, Vicki Woods writes:
What I care about is that [Tony Blair] is taking away my freedom to be who I am. The ID card lunacy alone should have the free citizens of Britain pouring into the streets à la poll tax riots. The state database is only one [...]

Quite contrary to what ministers have assured parliament and the public during the legislative and propaganda process, the Home Office is planning on adding much much more information on each of us to the national identity register than the fifty items they cheerily listed in the Bill, reports The Register.
Within a month of passing, [...]

Tom Espiner writes in ZDNet UK:
Security expert Bruce Schneier has slated the UK’s ID card scheme, saying that not only will it not solve e-crime, it will also make ID theft worse.
The security guru told ZDNet UK on Wednesday that the risks of implementing a centralised ID card scheme were “severe”, with little return on [...]

Jenni Russell comments on an email correspondence between Henry Porter and Tony Blair published as an article in The Observer on 23rd April:
The PM was equally offhand on ID cards. They were originally presented to us as part of the fight against terrorism; he no longer mentions that. In a throwaway paragraph he described them [...]

The Independent publishes an edited version of a speech given by Charles Clarke this evening at the London School of Economics. The speech seems to be intended to refute an Independenct article by Simon Carr on 15th April (available here, subscription required). Mr Clarke says, in part:
I particularly like this one: “The National Identity Register [...]