ID Card

9.05.00am BST (GMT +0100) Sun 9th Jul 2006

UK National Identity Card

According to the Sunday Times, who have their story from leaked emails, the Government's ID cards scheme is set to fail and may not be introduced for a generation. This is very good news if true, sadly we may not have beaten it because it fundamentally a bad idea but because logistical reasons.

The problems are apparently so serious that ministers have been forced to draw up plans for a scaled-down version to meet their pledge of phasing in the cards from 2008. However the civil servants have said that even this may not be possible. In one e-mail the prime minister is personally blamed with one civil servant writing "It was a Mr Blair apparently who wanted the 'early variant' card. Not my idea,"

See the Sunday Times website - www.timesonline.co.uk/sundaytimes for the full story and the emails.

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