Former home secretary who introduced compulsory ID cards will say they should be scrapped and that information sharing powers go too far
Blunkett: Speaking out on civil liberties David Blunkett, the authoritarian former home secretary who introduced the national identity scheme and slammed "airy fairy libertarians" who opposed it,...
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