Minister dodges cost questions while promising smartphone-free access and 'robust' verification The UK government has ...

The British government has scaled back plans for mandatory digital ID cards, initially proposed as a way of helping control ...

Mandatory digital ID cards were billed primarily as a tactic to stop illegal migration. They would make employing illegal ...

Rows over ID cards have been reignited by the government's plans to introduce a digital version by 2029. (Getty Images) Children as young as 13 could be forced to sign up to the government’s planned ...

Much owed to the few, but takeup is under 1% More than 15,000 former members of the UK's armed forces have successfully ...

The plan, announced by the prime minister in September, was intended to help crack down on the apparent ease with which ...

The Prime Minister has abandoned his plans for mandatory digital ID cards to verify someone’s right to work in the UK.

A petition calling for the government to scrap plans for digital identity cards has received more than 1.5 million signatures. Sir Keir Starmer announced on Friday that the government would introduce ...

Workers will be able to use a variety of digital IDs to prove their right to work in Britain, the government said Wednesday, ...

UK digital ID cards will be optional under Keir Starmer's revised plans, while employers must adopt mandatory digital ...

The upgrade of the national digital ID is in line with government efforts to comply with the EU’s standards for digital ...