Introducing digital ID makes perfect sense

I AM very much in favour of digital ID. It would solve multiple issues if it was properly administered, although I’m not sure the Government is competent to do this!

- Maggie Loates

It is obvious that this country needs certain classes of immigrants to fill vacancies which UK citizens are not able or are unwilling to fill. Cutting off all inward migration is neither practical nor economically viable.

Numerous other democratic countries have ID systems and it seems to work for them. As a British Consulate employee in France in the 1970s, I had to have a “carte de sejour”, which was, in effect, an ID card.

Even the United States has a putative ID system in that you have to produce a driver's licence, or an ID issued by the driver’s licence agency, in order to prove who you are.

All these people shrieking about their privacy being invaded have no clue about the information being held on them by social media companies and online shopping companies. In addition, HMRC maintains detailed records of all individuals and companies that file tax returns in the UK.

A digital ID issued to every person in the UK would ensure that those legitimately resident in this country, or with a verifiable asylum claim, would have a proper means of identification and be subject to UK taxes.

Those without proper ID, who were obviously illegal economic migrants, should be promptly removed to their country of origin or the country from which they came.