From ‘Change’ to Checkpoints: Labour’s Ongoing Digital ID Agenda—Now with BritCard | UK Column News

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- The Labour Party: Labour Party Manifesto 2024: Our plan to change Britain
- GOV.UK blogs: Digital identity and the GOV.UK Wallet: increasing choice, accelerating adoption
- Labour Growth Group (on X): Voters key tests for us will be: making people better off, improving public services and controlling our borders (Open Letter)
- Office for National Statistics: Long-term international migration, provisional: year ending December 2024
- GOV.UK: Restoring control over the immigration system: white paper
- Labour Together: BritCard: a progressive digital identity for Britain
- GOV.UK: Enabling the use of digital identities in the UK
- The Telegraph (2004): Ask to see my ID card and I'll eat it (Archived)
“If I am ever asked, on the streets of London, or in any other venue, public or private, to produce my ID card as evidence that I am who I say I am, when I have done nothing wrong and when I am simply ambling along […]”
- Legislation: Identity Cards Act 2006 (repealed)
- Legislation: Identity Documents Act 2010
- GOV.UK: Digital Identity Sectoral Analysis 2025
- The Guardian: Digital ID cards would be good for Britain – and a secret weapon for Labour against Reform
- The Telegraph: Digital ID cards could be Starmer's poll tax (Archived)
- Bloomberg: Sam Altman’s Eyeball-Scanning Identification Tech Expands to UK (Archived)
- MacRumors: Apple Expands Digital ID Support to Web Browsers in iOS 26
- Big Brother Watch:  Big Brother Watch Urges Government to Reject New Digital ID Plan
- UK Parliament: Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL] - Parliamentary Bills