The UK has debated national ID for years, but the discussion has become more pointed alongside growing privacy concerns. Two decades ago Tony Blair could sing the praises of ID cards and instead of public hysteria about data held by government, today Keir Starmer’s digital ID proposal – initially focused on proving a right to work – meets a distinctly more sceptical audience.
That scepticism has been turbocharged by a single figure: the projected £1.8bn cost laid out in the Autumn Budget. Yet the obsession with the initial cost may blind people to the greater scandal: the cost of inaction. Fraud already takes a mind-boggling toll on the UK economy – weighed in at over £200bn a year by recent estimates – while clunky, paper-based ID systems hobble everything from renting a home to getting services. That friction isn’t just annoying, it feeds a broader productivity problem by compelling organizations to waste time and money verifying the same individuals, time and again.
Viewed in that context, £1.8bn should be considered as an investment in security, not a political luxury. The greater risk is not that government over-spend, but that it under spends — or rushes — and winds up with a brittle system that became an embarrassment to the nation. A BritCard deployment at “
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