Digital ID cards – or ‘Brit cards’ as Starmer calls them – are a Blair-era policy being recycled at the worst possible time, says James Ford

It has been estimated that there are no fewer than 138 movie sequels currently in production. By any estimate, that is a lot of sequels. Even Homer Simpson is set to return to the silver screen, with a sequel to 2007’s The Simpson’s Movie recently greenlit. It will be joining titles like A Most Violent Year 2, A Quiet Place 3, Bill and Ted 4, and Avatars 3, 4 and 5 on a big screen near you. Hollywood seems fixated on ‘legacy IPs’ (Tinsel Town’s preferred term for its own collective lack of imagination, creativity and originality).

However, it is not just down at your local multiplex that you may find yourself experiencing a nauseating deja vu – because our beleaguered government is at it too. Tired, old, half-baked ideas from governments past are being taken off the shelf, dusted off and presented as the solution to the political challenges of 2025. Did you like it when the last government spaffed........

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