GB News presenter Bev Turner has predicted the “end of Keir Starmer” after plans to introduce “digital ID cards” were unveiled.

Speaking on The Late Show Live, Bev warned the Prime Minister that he has “underestimated how awake Britons are” to the “authoritarian” idea of digital identification.

The Prime Minister is expected to announce the scheme in a keynote speech today, in a bid to tackle the illegal migration crisis.

The ID card, nicknamed the “Brit Card”, is understood to be able to verify an individual’s right to live and work in the UK, targeting illegal migrants working in the underground economy.

Delivering her verdict on the plan, Bev told GB News: “I can’t decide whether to be incredibly depressed about it, which of course I am, or actually celebrating because I think this is going to be the end of Keir Starmer.

“I honestly don’t think he can survive this. He’s completely underestimated how much the British public know about digital ID, how many people are awake to this creeping authoritarian Government that we’re now going to be subjected to.”

Warning of the impact of digital ID on the lives of Britons, Bev explained: “He’s kicking sand in our eyes. All this wonderful good news he’s coming out with, about how he’s going to revive the high streets, I don’t buy it for a second.

“It is emotional blackmail because a digital ID will change life in this country in ways that we cannot even imagine and it requires a huge amount of imagination to really understand it.”

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Dismissing claims that the ID will be “convenient” for Britons, Bev stated: “We’re being told that this is to make things convenient because let’s face it, nothing feels convenient at the moment when you turn on a phone and you’ve got a verification and another verification and another app and another email, all that, that’s not accidental.

“That has nudged us towards this situation where lots of people will just go, I just want a quiet life, just give me a digital ID, it’ll be fine, I can’t bear it any longer, that will be so much easier.

“It’s going to make life horrible, it’s going to make it hard, and it changes the relationship between the individual and the state forever.”

As host Alex Armstrong pointed out that before digital ID cards there were the “vaccine passports” as a “testing ground” during Covid, Bev agreed: “It was, and at the time when some of us said that, we were told, ‘oh, you’re a conspiracy theorist, that’s never going to happen’.

“But there’s no vindication, trust me, there’s no satisfaction in knowing this is here. It’s just had this terrible inevitability about it.”

Admitting that there is an argument for a “better organised system” for Britain’s population, Bev concluded: “And to some extent, I know we have to move with the times, and there is possibly an argument that the population needs organising better because we have these clunky and unwieldy systems that don’t operate well.

“This is not that. This is not the solution to have all of your data in one place.

“That’s what I was talking about here, a centralised system will be potentially horrific, not just for our generation, but for our children’s generation and so on and so on. But like I say, I’m optimistic that the British public won’t buy it.”