Neil Oliver has predicted “mass non-compliance” with digital IDs after plans to introduce them were made public.

Neil slated Sir Keir Starmer’s proposal to introduce the mandatory IDs for all adults in Britain – but added that he was optimistic the plan would fail due to “mass refusal”.

Speaking to Bev Turner on GB News’ flagship US programme, The Late Show Live, he said: “I genuinely think there is enough awareness – more than enough awareness out there in the general population – and I sense that there’s going to be mass refusal and mass non-compliance.”

Bev, meanwhile, warned “this is what vaccine passports were the rehearsal for” as she warned of creeping authoritarianism in Britain.

Neil, meanwhile, predicted that the scheme could force the downfall of Labour.

The Prime Minister is expected to unveil his plans during a speech on Friday, sources have told GB News.

It is set to be justified by the Government under the pretense of cracking down on illegal working, especially by small boat migrants.

However, Neil said: “The very idea that this is going to tackle the people arriving by boats on the shores of the British Isles is absolute nonsense.”

Instead, he said the Government had been wanting to introduce similar measures for years, and had had to find a topic which enough people feared so they would be willing to accept the IDs as a solution.

He likened the so-called “Brit Cards” to handcuffs, calling them “the end of choice” and “the worst possible decision that any free living, freedom loving person could possibly make”.

The GB News contributor did however say that he did not think the proposal would go through thanks to public non-compliance.

An online petition against digital IDs rose to nearly 500,000 signatures on Thursday, having been launched in June.

During the segment, Bev warned that “once you give the Government powers, they never give them back again” in reference to worries that this is only the start of further state control.

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She argued that vaccine passports were simply a “rehearsal” for this scheme, despite the Government promising it was only a temporary rule.

The NHS Covid Pass was used during the pandemic to show an individual’s vaccination status in order to enter certain establishments and to travel.

Writing in The Telegraph, the Prime Minister said: “There is no silver bullet, but we must enforce every possible measure to deter illegal migrants from entering British waters.

“This Government will make a new, free of charge Digital ID that will be mandatory for the right to work by the end of this Parliament.”

He added: “Britain faces a choice between decency and division, between renewal and decline.

“This is the defining political choice of our times, and we must be unafraid of challenging a politics of grievance, preying on the problems of working people.”