ID card

Tony Blair got a biometric ID card but failed to persuade the rest of the country they were a good idea (Picture: Chris Young)

How support for ID cards has plummeted since Starmer announced plan Alistair Carmichael

First Minister John Swinney has complained that the UK Government's digital ID scheme is an attempt to 'force Scots to be British' (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Whatever John Swinney thinks, he's British

Keir Starmer hopes his ID card scheme will make him look tough on illegal immigration (Picture: Alberto Pezzali/WPA pool)

Why Keir Starmer's ID card plan could be Labour's 'Rwanda' moment Scotsman comment

Anyone who wants to work in the UK will need to have a digital ID by the end of the Parliament, Sir Keir Starmer has said (Picture: Henry Nicholls/AFP via Getty Images)

Readers’ letters: Digital ID cards an open invitation to identity thieves

In 1951, Liberal MP Harry Willcock was convicted for refusing to show a police officer his ID card, sparking a campaign against the wartime measure and it was abolished the following year (Picture: Walter Bellamy/Express)

Why I will rebel against Starmer’s digital ID card – and so should you Alistair Carmichael

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Tony Blair (pictured) and William Hague have called for the introduction of digital ID cards

Readers' letters: Digital ID cards are a charter for state snooping

Among the exhibits are a letter from a teenager who was killed three days later.

Connections between Scotland and Srebenica massacre explored in exhibition

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Nicola Sturgeon has said she is 'cautious' about a Covid-19 tracking app

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Rangers fans face tight security at ‘high risk’ St Joseph’s game

Immingration Minister Caroline Nokes says the only things about EU citizens the Government wants to check as identity, criminality and residency (Picture: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire)

Brexit: We want EU citizens to stay – Immigration Minister Caroline Nokes

Sajid Javid unveiled the scheme. Picture: David Mirzoeff/PA Wire

Home Office set to launch new immigration scheme for EU nationals in UK

The traditional method casting votes in person at a polling station is unchanged in more than a century. Picture: Lisa Ferguson

Electronic voting systems could replace paper ballots in Scotland

Barbosa appeared at the High Court in Edinburgh. Pic: Ian Georgeson

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ID cards

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ID card worries

Ms Keihanaikukauakahihuliheekahaunaele's driving licence shows just her surname - and shortened. Picture: KHON2

Hawaii: Woman slams officials over name shortening

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Suicide blast ‘may have been accident’

Weird week: Jambo judge, Jack Nicholson’s fake ID, and a shaky chopper

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Asian cabbie fined over racist tirade at passenger

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Letters: parking the curse of the high street

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Warning over bogus callers

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Ladyboys causing se-X problems for poll teams

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Letters: Body of evidence against biometric scans

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Letter: Why the fuss over biometrics in school?

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Water firm in bogus caller alert

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Letter: No refunds

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Off the cards

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Red-carded

ID card plan 'needs 28m people to sign up to cover costs'

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Boy, 4, held by police at ID card protests
A FOUR-year-old boy was among those held during ID card protests in Edinburgh, it was reported this morning.

Untrustworthy ID cards

ID cards by coercion

ID card claim demolished

Card crime

Fear is the key in this theatre of the absurd

ID cards will be government's latest techno white elephant

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Card madness

Advice on ID cards came from firm 'set to make millions'

Scots teenagers to be issued with ID cards

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