Tories to back plans for ID cards
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The Tories are to back controversial government plans to introduce ID cards in the UK, the party has said.
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Introduction of a U.K.-wide compulsory ID card system will be deferred until after the next election, according to documents leaked to the Tories.
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U.S. officials said they would unveil on Friday reasonable and inexpensive national requirements to implement an identification-card program critics call a costly invasion of privacy.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair won a  key vote Monday in his bid to reintroduce identity cards, seen  by the government as a key weapon in its anti-terror campaign.
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Britons will not be required to have ID cards until 2012, two years later than originally planned, the opposition Conservatives claimed on Tuesday, citing leaked government documents they obtained.
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The UK could "sleepwalk into a surveillance society" as a result of ID cards, the Information commissioner has warned. Send us your views.
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Straight answers not compulsory either For the third time in four days, Gordon Brown has sown doubts about the future of compulsory ID cards for UK citizens. Speaking at prime minister's question time today, Brown confirmed that it was "policy" for ID cards to become compulsory, but added the rider that this was subject to a vote in parliament.â¦
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David Blunkett is criticised for preparing a marketing campaign for ID cards before MPs back them.
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Conservatives put big business in its place The IT industry has found itself in a handbagging spat with shadow home secretary David Davis over the Conservative party's plans to ditch ID cards should they win power from Labour.â¦
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Count them in, count them out, count them all about... Immigration Minister Liam Byrne this week unveiled - to a certain amount of derision - his vision of the ID Card scheme as some sort of 21st Century equivalent of the 19th Century railway network or the 20th Century national electricity grid. It will be pervasive, and in 20 years time it will be a great British institution, "part of the fabric of British life."â¦
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Another no-change rule change? Analysis Immigration Minister Liam Byrne is to celebrate the first wave of the ID card rollout next year with a scary ad campaign threatening employers of illegal immigrants with fines of Â£10,000 per offence and up to two years in prison. But even by the low standards of the Home Office, "the biggest shake-up of the immigration system for 40 years" promises to be impressively toothless - if Byrne is depending on the fine income for the 2009 New Year party, he will be a disappointed man.â¦
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He's artful, but lacking in detail David Cameron, the straight-talking public relations executive who runs the Conservative party, gave the reasons why he opposes ID Cards yesterday.â¦
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Glastonbury organisers consider issuing festival-goers with photo ID cards in an attempt to foil touts.
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Proposals to fingerprint children aged 11 to 15 as part of new passport and ID card plans are being considered.
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Britain said on Tuesday it plans to force non-European foreign nationals to register identity details such as fingerprints and iris scans from 2008.
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Ministers decide to use existing databases for the ID card scheme - scrapping plans for a standalone system.
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David Blunkett is set to back plans to work closely with other European Union states on asylum and immigration.