Britons have expressed their outrage at Sir Keir Starmer's plans for mandatory Digital ID cards, warning it will "split Britain" rather than renewing it.
Speaking to GB News, Londoners in Notting Hill told National Reporter Will Godley that the Prime Minister's move has "declared civil war" on Britain.
In his speech at the Global Progress Action summit in London, Sir Keir said: "I am announcing this Government will make a new free of charge digital ID mandatory for the right to work by the end of this Parliament.
"Let me spell that out. You will not be able to work in the United Kingdom if you do not have Digital ID, it's as simple as that. Because decent, pragmatic, fair minded people. They want us to tackle the issues that they see around them."
Britons have expressed their outrage at Keir Starmer's rollout of Digital ID cards
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Delivering her verdict on the scheme, one Londoner told GB News: "I think, to be honest, if people are going to come across the Channel and take that effort to go on those dinghies, they're going to come across anyway."
Another stated: "To be honest, this idea, I feel like it's just tracking, and it's something that a lot of people aren't going to be happy about.
"I don't think it's the right thing, I don't think it's going to help too much. I think it's going to cause more problems, if anything."
Hitting out at the "control" the ID cards will have on Britons, one man fumed: "It's all about control. It's going to make no difference on the immigration, none whatsoever.
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He continued: "If you're coming over in a boat, you don't have any ID, so what's going to happen? The Government will give us one of these ID things, and it's not going to make any difference to British people whatsoever. It's just more controlling."
Warning of a "split" in the British public rather than a unification, one furious Britain claimed the Prime Minister has "declared civil war on his own country".
The man stated: "The Digital ID card will not identify the British, it will split the British. And that's why Starmer is declaring a civil war against his own country. It is pig ignorance.
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"It won't help immigration because the criminals are very clever, and they will find ways. Government, data, hackers, identity theft, civil servants, it's a mess."
Defending the plans, Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy told GB News that the Digital ID cards are there to "protect" British workers in the growing "illegal market".
She explained: "It ensures that people who have the right to work can work, and it protects British people from being undercut by an illegal market in employment.
"When you've got a million young people who are not in education, employment or training, it is obviously having a significant impact on families up and down the country."