Tom Whitehead writes in the Daily Telegraph: Those in favour of the card now stand at just 55 per cent after dropping from 60 per cent in August. At the same time, opposition to the £4.7 billion scheme grew from 24 to 26 per cent in the same period, the Home Office’s own polling showed. [...]
Nicole Kobie writes in IT Pro: The identity card scheme has caught its first illegal immigrant, the Home Office has said. Foreign nationals – those people from other countries looking to stay in the UK – started being interviewed to receive biometric identity cards last month. Indian-born Ranjit Singh applied to stay in the country [...]
Henry Porter writes on the Guardian web site: Preying on the intellectual dysfunction on the right, Jack Straw went to the Daily Mail to announce his new policy of rebalancing the Human Rights Act on its tenth anniversary. He proposes to end the aspect he calls the “villain’s charter”, adding responsibilities to obey the law [...]
According to The Register: The Identity and Passport Service has cut down its shortlist for the biggest contract within the National Identity Scheme. It has dropped IBM from the competition for the application and enrolment procurement, leaving CSC and Fujitsu in contention. In September, IPS said that all three firms were on the shortlist for [...]
David Leppard writes in the Sunday Times: Jacqui Smith, the home secretary, has suffered fresh embarrassment from a new Whitehall leak disclosing that ministers are seeking new powers to search the homes of staff working on ID cards. An 11-page confidential Home Office document – which was sent to a campaigner against ID cards – [...]
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