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Card-carrying Brits.(Other Countries)(Brief Article)

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David Blunkett et al., "National ID Card Scheme Is Key to the United Kingdom's Future," Home Office, April 26, 2004 (homeoffice.gov.uk)

From Singapore to France, national identity cards have become a mainstay of daily life. So far, however, they have remained unknown in the Anglosphere.

A new proposal from Tony Blair's Labour government, though, will almost certainly turn U.K. citizens into national ID card holders by the middle of the next decade. Under the proposal which, given the U.K.'s parliamentary system will almost certainly become law, the government will begin a pilot program geared toward issuing every British citizen a standard national ID card. According to the Home Office--the department in charge of law enforcement--national ID cards will fight crime and "enable people to access services more easily, and prevent access to those with no ...

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