Blair believes this will help “flush out” anti-mass migration populists by forcing them to choose between their rhetoric and actual policy solutions.
He thinks the public will trade privacy for efficiency, and the government will win the debate on digital IDs, which will also help address issues like immigration and benefit fraud.
Former Prime Minister Sir Tony Blair wants his successor as British premier and Labour Party leader, Sir Keir Starmer, to impose a digital ID regime, in part to “flush out” anti-mass migration populists.
“What the populists do is they take a real grievance and they exploit it but they very often don’t want to have a solution because solutions are much tougher than talking about problems,” Blair said, adding: “The grievance would be on immigration that the thing is out of control. The grievance would be on crime that we’re not doing enough on it. So you say, ‘OK, here’s what you do’. And then you have a big political fight. The populist is forced to choose. You’ve got to create an agenda that the other side has to respond to.”...<<<Read More>>>...
