All UK citizens will soon be required to have a digital ‘Brit-card’ ID

Prime Minister Keir Starmer is set to announce that all 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 citizen can live and work in the UK.

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

‘My long-term personal political view has always been in favour of ID cards.’

But privacy groups have long criticised the idea, with Big Brother Watch previously telling Metro today that mandatory digital ID cards are ‘dystopian’.

Interim director Rebecca Vincent said: ‘While Downing Street is scrambling to be seen as doing something about illegal immigration, we are sleepwalking into a dystopian nightmare where the entire population will be forced through myriad digital checkpoints to go about our everyday lives.

‘Mandatory digital ID is simply not the magic-bullet solution that is often promised to tackle illegal immigration or other societal issues.’

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