The head of a top British freedom advocacy group has praised the British public for rejecting a "surveillance state" as support for the proposed digital ID scheme plummeted to record lows.
Polling carried out by More in Common found that support for the scheme crashed from 35 per cent to -14 per cent over the weekend.
Speaking to Bev Turner on GB News' flagship US programme, The Late Show, head of the Together Declaration group Alan Miller praised the "united" British people for fighting back against the proposal.
Mr Miller told Bev: "It's fantastic to see the great British public coming out and having their voices heard."
Alan Miller praised the 'united' British people for fighting back against the proposal
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The freedom group's head noted that there was "unanimity" across Britain's political divide in speaking out against the digital ID scheme.
Mr Miller said: "The idea that we have a biometric surveillance state constantly censoring, constantly surveying and monitoring the public, the British public do not want this, so it's fantastic to see."
However, he warned that the "people that are in power" are "determined" to see the scheme being forced through, despite the disapproval from the majority of Britons.
Mr Miller called on the public "to stay very vigilant together".
The Together Declaration head spoke about his group's protests against the scheme at the Labour Party Conference
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The Together Declaration head spoke about the protests against the scheme at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, including "a series of projections that had images Keir Starmer as big brother" in reference to George Orwell's famous 1984 book.
He also told Bev: "We were giving out flyers, we organised a rally and a protest with farmers and with loads of people saying no to digital ID, which got a lot of attention.
"One of the funniest bits was when Everton football match was on, and all the footy fans were going past to the projections and cheering and taking photos."
Bev said the idea that the scheme was being used "to stop illegal migration is just frankly dissolved" and asked Mr Miller for his predictions for the Government's future "methods".
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Mr Miller said: "Keir Starmer has recognised that the 'it will stop the boats argument' has fallen completely and it's just ridiculed.
"At his speech at the party conference he said we're going to have NHS digital. That's the big idea.
"The big concerns, of course, with the health digital ID is what we've seen already, when there was an attempt to impose a mandate for jabs for people who'd been working on the frontline. "
The freedom group chief noted that Britain lost "100,000 NHS staff", including "45,000 care workers from it" previously.
A petition to scrap the plans for a digital ID scheme has now received more than 2.7 million signatures
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Mr Miller added: "The idea that we have a biometric state with a with a digital ID, which nudges and forces and coerces people, it's unacceptable."
A petition to scrap the plans for a digital ID scheme has now received more than 2.7 million signatures.
On Thursday, the Government issued a response to the petition after more than a week since it went live.
The response read: "We will introduce a digital ID within this Parliament to help tackle illegal migration, make accessing government services easier, and enable wider efficiencies. We will consult on details soon."
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