"This is from her shadow Cabinet Office minister Mike Wood. While we welcome the scrapping of any mandatory identification, this is yet another humiliating U-turn from the government. Keir Starmer's spinelessness is becoming a pattern, not an exception. What was sold as a tough measure to tackle illegal working is now set to become yet another costly, ill-thought-out experiment abandoned at the first sign of pressure from Labour's backbenches."
"U-turns normally allow the opposition to enjoy saying we told you so', and there has been a lot of that overnight. And this is from Lisa Smart, the Lib Dem Cabinet Office spokesperson. Number 10 must be bulk ordering motion sickness tablets at this rate to cope with all their U-turns. It was clear right from the start this was a proposal doomed to failure, that would have cost obscene amounts of taxpayers money to deliver absolutely nothing."
The UK government has reversed plans for compulsory digital ID, adding another significant U-turn to recent policy reversals. The rollback increases the tally of major reversals and reflects adjustments to political pressure and practical concerns. Critics described the mandatory-ID proposal as costly, ill-conceived, and likely to deliver little tangible benefit while wasting taxpayer money. Political opponents and commentators seized the reversal as evidence of poor judgment and internal weakness. Social-media exchanges framed the episode in strategic terms, and backbench pressure, feasibility doubts, and financial concerns were central to the decision to abandon the mandatory scheme.
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