Jamie Doward writes in The Observer:
The future of the UK’s identity card scheme was thrown into further confusion last night after it emerged that the Home Office is looking to scrap one of its key components – a national register of fingerprints.
Stewart Paterson writes in The Herald:
Scottish Tory leaders took to the streets yesterday to protest against government plans for compulsory identity cards.
Annabel Goldie and David Mundell led a group of party supporters outside the Passport Office in Glasgow highlighting what they claim is the ineffectiveness and unfair cost of ID cards.
They argued that money needed [...]
Maija Palmer and Jimmy Burns write in the Financial Times:
Two prominent companies have pulled out of the procurement process for the controversial multi-billion pound identity card programme amid growing concerns that the government is planning to delay the roll-out of the project.
The Financial Times has learnt that the IT services company Accenture and the defence [...]
Nick Robinson, BBC political editor, writes in his Newslog:
Tony Blair regarded ID cards as an election winner. He pledged that legislation to make them compulsory would form a “major plank” of Labour’s next election manifesto. Under Gordon Brown it now looks clear that will be no such pledge.
Any decision on compulsory ID cards could be [...]
James Kirkup writes in the Daily Telegraph:
The Government’s national identity card scheme was “in the intensive care ward” after leaked documents showed plans to issue UK citizens with the cards have been delayed until after the next election.
Amid growing doubts that the multibillion pound scheme will ever see the light of day, a confidential Home [...]
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