The British Prime Minister Keir Starmer chose the crowded room of the 2025 Global Progress Action Summit to officially share with citizens how the government plans to combat illegal immigration. All adults would have to prove their right to work and live in the UK through a mandatory digital ID app – the BritCard.
A petition demanding to scrap the scheme over privacy concerns attracted over one thousand signatures in around 24 hours – though there are now more than 2.8 million at the time of writing. Politicians, from both sides and even from within Starmer’s party, have also strongly criticized the decision.
