That’s the news from The Times today, whose latest Populus poll finds people opposing the introduction of ID cards by 55% to 29%.
It looks as if the data chaos in the government this week has severely undermined public support for ID cards, although previous polls showed that a majority might oppose them depending on the costs involved.
(The Liberal Democrats are running an online petition against ID cards: www.libdems.org.uk/noidcards).
Follow @libdemvoice.org on Bluesky
Like us on Facebook
Subscribe to our feed
Sign-up for our daily email digest
The Brexit Referendum – 10 years on (Callum Robertson)
One year on, and I’m still finding it hard to feel pride (Rebecca Jones)
Andy Burnham’s housing challenge: Why his own arguments demand more than Labour’s current plans (Iain Donaldson)
ALDC’s by-election report – 18th June (Joe Nutt)
Mathew on Monday: Starmer’s resignation and an increasingly ungovernable country (Mathew Hulbert)
Richard Flowers 
George Thomas 
Tristan Ward 
Chloe 
GWYN WILLIAMS 
Sparrows Can't Sing Q&A with Barbara Windsor and Murray Melvin
A bargain at 23 guineas?
20C night
Lessons from 1936 and 2026 for the Liberal Democrats (LDN#211)
2 Comments
Nice to see the ex-Communist neo-con, Aaronovitch, in a minority for once.
2003 we led on Iraq against public opinion and won the argument
2005/6/7 we led the argument on ID Cards against public opinion and again seem to have won the argument
One Trackback
[…] being abused, misused or mislaid – I think you can guess my views this week! But good to see – as Liberal Democrat Voice reports – that the latest polls now show a decisive majority against ID […]