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Mandatory digital identification for workers by 2029, PM says

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Joshua Rozenberg
Sep 26, 2025
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Not for the first time, it seems I may be getting a national identity card. Writing in today’s Telegraph, the prime minister says his

government will make a new, free-of-charge, digital ID that will be mandatory for the right to work by the end of this parliament.

We had ID cards in the UK during both world wars, even for those of us who were then too yo…

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