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By politics.co.uk staff The government has made a huge U-turn on ID cards, by promising they will never be mandatory. The move signals the end of the project as it was originally conceived, and clears the way for the project to be abandoned altogether, although home secretary Alan Johnson assured reporters the scheme would actually… Read more »
By Ian Dunt ID cards could cost as much as £2,857 each based on the amount of money the government has already committed to the pilot project, politics.co.uk can exclusively reveal. The figure dwarfs former home secretary Jacqui Smith’s claims that ID cards will cost individuals no more than £30 each, unless the government intends… Read more »