Metro Sarah Hooper
Prime Minister Keir Starmer is set to announce that all working adults in the UK will be required to have a government-issued digital ID card.
New plans, which Starmer will unveil tomorrow, are hoped to help tackle levels of illegal immigration and make it easier to identify if a person can live and work in the UK – whether a citizen or those on visas.
The so-called ‘Brit-card’ would be shown when starting a new job, and would be checked in a large database of people entitled to work in the UK.
Earlier this month, home secretary Shabana Mahmood said: ‘I think that a system of digital ID can also help with illegal working and the enforcement of other laws as well. I do think that has a role to play in dealing with our migration.
‘My long-term personal political view has always been in favour of ID cards.’
How would the ID work and is it mandatory?
Initial mockups showed that the document would show whether the holder has the right to work or rent – either a citizen or a foreign national.
It appears the digital ID will indeed be mandatory for any working adult in the United Kingdom.
Their driving licence would also be on the app, with hopes that the app could be used to order a passport, access NHS services or display your National Insurance number.
It could help curb visa overstayers, with 63,000 non-EU nationals recorded as not leaving the country before their documents expired in the four years to March 2020, or fewer than 4%…
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