Surrendering our security is a new low for Starmer

IT'S coming to something when the Prime Minister has this column on the same side as the unhinged racists who want to see the world burn.

- DARREN LEWIS

LUDICROUS PM raving about ID cards

And yet Sir Keir Starmer has set himself on a collision course with an electorate that simply does not want ID cards.

How can a human rights lawyer get it so wrong about human rights so often?

This has been the week when, despite his own willingness to appease the online right with xenophobic rhetoric, he has had the brass neck to denounce (correctly) Reform policy as racist.

Now Starmer wants to convince us to embrace digital ID cards - an infringement on our civil liberties - as an antidote to a confected immigration crisis.

There is statistical evidence proving most people remain unaware that the numbers of migrants here legally vastly outnumber those who are not, by some distance.

There is zero evidence to suggest digital ID cards will stop an underground economy. Or stop a single boat.

Not one person employing, say, a cash-in-hand builder or cleaner will suddenly demand to see an ID card and go with someone else if one isn't forthcoming.