ID cards trial axed
23.06.09
Controversial plans for compulsory identity cards - due to be trialled by staff at Manchester and London City Airport - were dropped this week. Airside workers and pilots at the two airports were to be the first to be issued with the cards in big trials later this year.
The Government had planned to roll out the cards across the country by 2012. However, on Tuesday afternoon, the new Home Secretary Alan Johnson said changes in the plans meant the airport trials would not got ahead. He said that while ID cards would still be brought in, they should be ‘a personal choice for British citizens’. Given that most will chose not to take them, the high profile, high cost scheme looks doomed.
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