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David Lynch

Keir Starmer defends digital ID work check plans amid accusations of new U-turn

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said the Government is still introducing checks on the right to work in the UK (Ian Vogler/Daily Mirror/PA) - (PA Wire)

Sir Keir Starmer has insisted there “will be checks” on the right to work in the UK, and “they will be digital, and they will be mandatory”, as he faced fire in the Commons over a U-turn on the Government’s flagship digital ID plans.

The Government appears poised to water down plans for a new mandatory digital identification system for right-to-work checks, aimed at cracking down on illegal working by migrants.

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