00:00Our country faces a massive choice. Millions of people see every single day how bureaucratic,
00:07maddening, wasteful, slow, expensive it is to do basic tasks that with government take,
00:16you know, really problematic, but in the rest of their lives are actually quite straightforward.
00:20Countries around the world, Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, Australia, others have adopted digital
00:25ID and what that has done is it's modernised the state. It's allowed them to make things much more
00:32convenient and the only people who have lost out in those systems with those changes have been people
00:38committing crime, people committing fraud, people trying to work in those countries illegally without
00:43the right to work there and so we are really confident and proud of this change because it is
00:48a big decision the Prime Minister has made and it's a big call whether or not we do this. It was dodged
00:55for many years by Conservative and coalition governments. You're right to say it's opposed
01:02by lots of people, lots of political parties out there and we are up for the debate on this
01:07because we need to modernise the state.
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