Labour’s identity crisis

The proposals for ID cards are not about immigration control – and ministers lack the mandate or public trust to introduce them

All we know about the Government’s proposed digital identity system is the 955 words published in a press release on gov.uk on Friday.

The story was briefed out in a hurry to distract from troublesome news that was not going away. The Prime Minister and his chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, had broken the rules and kept £750,000 of political donations se…