Nigel Farage has welcomed the news the Government may be U-turning on mandatory Digital ID.

Speaking on GB News, Nigel Farage said: “This is an authoritarian Government. Their instinct with everything, whether it’s in the manifesto or not, is to control, is to ban, and the announcement of compulsory Digital ID was, I thought, one of Sir Keir Starmer’s worst moments yet.

“Well, The Times have reported that actually there’s now going to be a U-turn and we are not going to have compulsory Digital ID.

“They told us it would stop illegal immigration. They told us it would stop illegal working. They told us it would make our health records even better and more efficient.

“And of course, the counter arguments were that it’s big brother gone mad. The counter arguments were that all of this data would just leak anyway, as nearly all of it does.

“And it was very interesting, because the public, in a snap poll by about 70 per cent to 30 per cent when they heard the initial argument, it would stop illegal working or in favour of it.

“Once the country debated it for a couple of weeks, it kind of went 70-30 the other way. This Government is astonishing. It announces initiative after initiative and gets forced to change its mind. A foreigner, to work now, has to give an employer a code. This is an authoritarian Government.”

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