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06 Apr · Wed 2005

UK ID card plans dropped


BBC report on ID card demise As Tony Blair sets the date (May 5th) for the next General Election, over a dozen bills are to be dropped from the government's legislative programme, including plans for a national ID card. In what looks like a breathtaking piece of spin, the current Home Secretary, Charles Clarke, lays the blame on the Conservative party, saying that they had decided "to kill the bill". A bizarre assertion from the man who had divisive and radical anti-terror legislation rammed through parliament only a few weeks ago, in the teeth of fierce opposition from the Upper Chamber. If the Conservatives can "kill" a bill like this one, it's odd that they didn't manage to scupper either the anti-terror bill or the ban on fox-hunting, to both of which they had far more deep-rooted objections. Perhaps what Mr Clarke means is that he saw little point in persisting with a bill which the Conservatives were almost certain to discard if they won the imminent election. I wonder if his party colleagues know that he is so pessimistic.
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