Jane Fae Ozimek writes in The Register:
When the country is being asked to get ready for cutbacks, the last thing you’d expect is for civil servants to be squandering millions of pounds of public money now – and racking up huge bills for the future – or perhaps you would.
That is the allegation made by [...]

Chris Williams writes in The Register:
David Blunkett this morning claimed he may sue the government for a refund on his £30 ID card, which new laws will render worthless by the end of summer.
The former Home Secretary and political originator of the ID cards scheme went on Today this morning to explain why he was [...]

According to the Economist online:
Opponents of ID cards present this as a victory for ancient British liberties. Reflexive journalistic cynicism aside, it is true that one of the clearest areas of common ground between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats is opposition to the rather authoritarian instincts of the Labour party (although the two parties [...]

Alan Travis writes in The Guardian:
The timetable for the dismantling of the £4.5bn national identity card scheme is to be spelled out today by the home secretary, Theresa May, when she publishes the legislation delivering the coalition promise to cancel it.
The 15,000 identity cards issued under an “early adopters” pilot scheme are to be cancelled [...]

Hugh Muir writes in the Guardian’s Diary column:
Yes, truth will out. And yesterday must have been a sad day for the sad Labour types who actually believed that we might embrace identity cards. The Queen’s speech put paid to that: ID cards rest in peace. People such as former home office special adviser Clare Montagu, [...]