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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
David Maddox

Tony Blair calls for roll out of digital ID to tackle immigration and spiralling NHS costs

Tony Blair has revived his former government’s failed policy of ID cards in a digital form to tackle the challenges the world is facing on immigration, health and taxes.

Writing for The Daily Mail, the former prime minister claimed that the lesson of Donald Trump’s victory in America is that “any politician today, who is promising management of the status quo and not fundamental change of it, will lose.”

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