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Sunday, September 07, 2003
Blair faces ID card revolt
Brian Micklethwait (London)
(0)   Identity cards

Report in today's Telegraph:

Tony Blair is facing a Cabinet revolt over the introduction of compulsory identity cards as senior ministers press him to tone down his radical agenda in the run-up to the next general election.

Gordon Brown, the Chancellor, and John Prescott, the Deputy Prime Minister, are leading the Cabinet opposition to the cards. They would cost individuals about £40 each and would be required before any of the benefits of the state could be obtained.

You get a Poll Tax feel about this, don't you? I don't know if Brown and Prescott really, really object to compulsory ID cards. But they do make a very good stick to beat Blair with just now.


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