Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch clash over digital ID U-turn

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Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch welcomed the Government’s “latest U-turn” on digital ID at the start of Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday.Responding, Sir Keir Starmer said: “I’m determined to make it harder for people to work illegally in this country, and that’s why there will be checks, they will be digital, and they will be mandatory."The Prime Minister’s weekly appearance in the Commons follows an apparent admission that the flagship policy will no longer be mandatory for right-to-work checks.

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00:00Mr Speaker, can I welcome the Prime Minister's latest U-turn?

00:04I feel like I say that every week.

00:07Mandatory digital ID was a rubbish policy, and we on this side of the House are glad to see the back of it.

00:14Mr Speaker, I'm determined to make it harder for people to work illegally in this country,

00:20and that's why there will be checks, they will be digital, and they will be mandatory.

00:24And, Mr Speaker, on consistency, don't get me started on five Prime Ministers, six Chancellors, eight Home Secretaries, 16 Housing Ministers.

00:37They had more positions in 14 years than the Kama Sutra.

00:41No wonder they're knackered, and they left the country screwed.

00:44Kami Bello!

00:46Kami Bello!

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