Kable reports:
Directgov has asked IT suppliers to come up with new thinking on identity verification
The team, which is now within the Cabinet Office, has issued a pre-tender notice published in the Official Journal of the European Union, saying that it wants feedback on potential requirements for the public sector on all aspects of identity verification [...]

Nicholas Watt writes in the Guardian about Tony Blair’s memoir:
Blair dismisses objections to ID cards on civil liberties grounds as “absurd”. The cards were necessary; they would help deal with illegal immigration and aid transactions that were the “warp and woof” of life. “I could envisage that it might take time. The civil liberties argument [...]

Andrew Grice writes in the Inependent:
Ed Miliband has much more than winning the Labour leadership in his sights. He is convinced he can complete the first realignment in British politics since the Social Democratic Party of David Owen and Roy Jenkins left Labour in 1981.
“There is a progressive majority in this country; we did not [...]

According to the BBC:
The government has admitted missing its target of scrapping ID cards within 100 days of coming to office.
In May, in one of the coalition’s first acts, Home Secretary Theresa May said the bill to abolish the cards would become law by August.
But ministers ran out of time to get it on to [...]

Mark Stuart, writing in the Yorkshire Post, comments on the Labour leadership contest:
But even the most Blairite of leadership candidates need to recognise that New Labour in government became over-centralised and far too obsessed with creating a surveillance state. As the coalition rapidly devolves power downwards and scraps ID cards, Labour needs to urgently re-examine [...]