Patrick Wintour writes in The Guardian:
Nick Clegg, the odds-on favourite to become Liberal Democrat leader, yesterday announced that he will break the law and refuse to provide details of his identity if the government presses ahead with plans to make ID cards compulsory.
Drawing a parallel with resistance to the poll tax, he said he would [...]

AC Grayling writes in The Guardian:
The real test of Brown’s bona fides as a champion of liberty remains ID cards. The chief of many fallacies underlying arguments in favour of biometric cards seems to have been bought by Brown: that if we have a technology, we must use it. He must be urged to see [...]

Comment on Gordon Brown’s speech on Liberty continues, and much of it specifically refers to ID cards. Henry Porter writes in the Observer:
The tailend of Brown’s speech gave the lie to its beginning where he evoked the reluctant ghosts of Milton, Locke, Churchill and poor old Orwell, who is always dragged in on these occasions. [...]

Matthew Parris and Phil Mason, writing in the Times, remind us of one particular politician’s self-contradictions:
Instead of wasting hundreds of millions of pounds on compulsory ID cards as the Tory Right demand, let that money provide thousands more police officers on the beat in our local communities.
– Tony Blair, as Leader of the Opposition, Labour [...]

According to the Guardian’s leader:
Gordon Brown and Jack Straw issued a flurry of speeches and announcements yesterday on what has come to be known, not always accurately, as the constitutional reform agenda. One of their prime goals, obviously and reasonably, was political: to regain the domestic initiative after Labour’s succession of autumn debacles. The prime [...]