Jacqui史密斯離開導致猜想在ID卡片

威斯敏斯特猜想培養了一個新的問號在政府的旗艦身份證計劃的未來期間，跟隨 新聞 家庭秘書Jacqui史密斯即將到來的離開。

史密斯是其中一主要驅動力在ID卡片政策之後，與對費用的財寶關心戰鬥和拒绝一個財寶被帶領的提案為一個私有區段被帶領的ID系統。

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