Government backtracks on compulsory ID cards

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Airport workers will no longer be forced to carry identity cards, but rollout of voluntary scheme to citizens is to be accelerated

ID cards: voluntary for UK citizens The government has made yet another U-turn on the ID cards scheme by dropping plans to make the cards compulsory for the first UK citizens that would have carr...

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