By Sir David Davis

Keir Starmer has announced that all UK adults will be required to have digital ID cards under his new plan.

Two-thirds of Britons do not trust the Government to keep their personal information secure.

They are right to be concerned. The plan will effectively centralise the management of all the data that the Government keeps on you - from medical history to tax accounts, from welfare eligibility to passport records - and in so doing, give the Government sweeping access to vast amounts of sensitive data for digital IDs.

I have long campaigned against the introduction of mandatory ID cards in the UK, as they would require undue intrusion by the state and be severely detrimental to personal privacy and individual liberty.

We won this argument in the early years of this century, which is why Tony Blair effectively abandoned the original ID card plan after investing vast amounts of government effort in legislating and preparing for it.

There are numerous reasons for not wanting the Government to have such a centralised record system, one being that, based on historical evidence, they will lose it.

Even sophisticated high-tech organisations struggle to protect the........

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