La partenza di Jacqui Smith causa la speculazione sopra le schede di identificazione

La speculazione de Westminster ha sollevato un nuovo punto interrogativo sopra il futuro dello schema della carta di identità della nave ammiraglia del governo, seguente notizie di prossima partenza della segretaria domestica Jacqui Smith.

Smith era una delle forze di azionamento principali dietro la politica della scheda di identificazione, combattimento fuori delle preoccupazioni di Ministero del Tesoro circa costo ed il rifiuto della proposta Ministero del Tesoro-condotta per un sistema riservato-settore-condotto di identificazione.

But she has been badly tarnished by the row over her husband’s claim for renting a porn video on her expenses and her designation of her main home as a room in her sister’s London house. She is expected to leave the Cabinet in Gordon Brown’s expected reshuffle next week.

One of Smith’s possible successors, Alistair Darling, whom the prime minister failed to support as his ongoing Chancellor, is not known as a strong supporter of the ID scheme .

With budgets under pressure and if he gets the post, Darling may see the switch at the top as the opportunity to change the policy.

But there was late speculation that he might refuse the job and with the government itself in disarray following a co-ordinated series of resignations, the future of ID card policy is the last of Brown’s problems.

Parliamentary reporter