Guardian: “Straw signals rethink on ID cards”

Well, well, well. Maybe things will get better after all:

Jack Straw, widely expected to replace John Reid as the home secretary, today clearly signalled that the future of the national identity card scheme would be in the melting pot when Gordon Brown becomes prime minister next month.

Mr Straw – who is Mr Brown’s leadership campaign manager and has a long record of cabinet opposition to a compulsory ID card system – indicated that the future of the £5.75bn project would be under review in the new government

The future’s bright; the future’s Brown, maybe?

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This entry was written by Martin McCallion, posted on 2007-05-11 at 15:04:38, filed under lj, politics. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Trackbacks are closed, but you can post a comment.

4 Comments

  1. Noosa Lee
    Posted 2007-05-11 at 19:06:16 | Permalink

    I wouldn’t go as far as to say that I’d find a Brown future bright but losing this stupid idea would be a good start. Why don’t they just sub-contract it to Visa card – they know everything about us already.

  2. Paul F Cockburn
    Posted 2007-05-14 at 07:44:09 | Permalink

    Personally, I’d trust Gordon Brown as far as I could throw him.

  3. Martin McCallion
    Posted 2007-05-14 at 21:53:45 | Permalink

    Aye, well: we’ll see in due course, no doubt.

  4. Glyn
    Posted 2007-06-06 at 21:11:44 | Permalink

    We can but hope that this misconceived plan falls by the wayside.

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