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Identity cards

August 2024

  • A police facial recognition van in front of the Cardiff City stadium

    Starmer’s live facial recognition plan would usher in national ID, campaigners say

    PM accused of ignoring civil rights and aping autocracies as he proposes new powers after far-right unrest

July 2024

  • The then deputy prime minister Nick Clegg addresses the 2011 Lib Dem party conference.

    Bring back New Labour’s national identity card scheme

  • Defence secretary John Healey meeting Ukrainian defence minister Rustem Umerov during a visit to Odesa.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Defence secretary announces new military aid package for Ukraine – as it happened

June 2024

  • A polling station near to Westminster Abbey.

    Lib Dems vow to abolish use of voter ID at polling stations

    Party says policy is costly, unnecessary and part of a Tory war on the younger generation

May 2024

  • Boris Johnson.

    Boris Johnson turned away from polling station after forgetting to bring photo ID

    Former PM made the requirement to bring photo ID a stipulation of the Elections Act in 2022

April 2024

  • A UK voter carrying a passport

    Observer letters
    My ID card makes life so much easier

  • Martha Gill

    Jacob Rees Mogg is wrong: Britons do want ID cards

    Martha Gill

September 2023

  • A poster in a window reminding voters to bring their photo ID at a polling station in Hillingdon on local elections day

    More forms of ID may be allowed for UK voters after damning report

    Ministers to review policy but any change unlikely to cover documents used by younger people such as 18-plus travel passes

May 2023

  • A teenage male looks at the screen of a mobile phone in the dark

    Age verification for adult websites may involve Australian government digital ID

    ‘We do not want young people having unfettered access to pornography,’ communications minister Michelle Rowland says

February 2023

  • A billboard reminder that voters in England will need to show photo ID at polling stations in the local elections on 4 May.

    Chaos could hit English local elections because of ‘too strict’ photo ID for voters

    Tory leader of Local Government Association fears staff will be ‘overwhelmed’ by rush for voter authority certificates

December 2022

  • man entering polling station

    Fears voter ID card delay could disfranchise many in England

  • James Jamieson, the chairman of the Local Government Association

    Council leaders urge ministers to delay plans for photo ID at May elections

November 2022

  • Mehran Karimi Nasseri, or ‘Sir Alfred’, on his home bench at Charles de Gaulle airport.

    ‘The Terminal Man’ lived in a Paris airport for 18 years. I’ll never forget the weeks I spent with him

    Mehran Karimi Nasseri arrived without papers at Charles de Gaulle airport in 1988 and didn’t leave until 2006. We shared its metal benches, a bomb scare and many, many Filets-O-Fish
  • Gavin Williamson in Whitehall on Monday.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Gavin Williamson announces resignation but ‘refutes the characterisation’ of claims against him – as it happened

    Former deputy chief whip Anne Milton tells Channel 4 Williamson used ‘leverage’ and threats against MPs
  • Stephen Kinnock at a Hong Kong independence rally in London last year.

    Labour revives ID cards idea to reduce irregular immigration

    Stephen Kinnock says identity scheme would help to reassure public ‘we have control of borders’

December 2021

  • Nick Cohen

    The Tories call it electoral reform. Looks more like a bid to rig the system

    Nick Cohen
    The party is doing all it can to disenfranchise every type of voter unlikely to support it

September 2021

  • Rafael Behr

    Tory MPs call it reform, but the elections bill looks more like a heist

    Rafael Behr
  • Afghan election commission workers transfer data from biometric devices to the main server at a warehouse in Kabul, Afghanistan October 7, 2019. Picture taken October 7, 2019. REUTERS/Mohammad Ismail

    Opinion
    The Taliban are showing us the dangers of personal data falling into the wrong hands

    Emrys Schoemaker

July 2021

  • Facial recognition technology could help tell children from adults.

    Can facial analysis technology create a child-safe internet?

  • Nick Cohen

    Fake voters exist only in Boris Johnson’s fevered imagination

    Nick Cohen
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