IDカードのための箱は絶望的になっている

Gordon Brownは身分照明と彼がNo10で引き継ぐと計画する、それ今日要求された付く。

彼は£5billionのプロジェクトに暖まるようであるが、利点にビジネスおよび個人に戦いのテロリズムの価値よりもむしろ焦点を合わせる。

今では一等書記官および宝庫が-どちらも最初に非常に懐疑的があった-カードの版を支えることを来たという印がある。

He is understood to be concerned about the rising cost of identity fraud and believes biometric cards should go ahead if they can within budget.

Mr Brown has commissioned former HBOS chief Sir James Crosby to look at potential benefits to business and customers, and has delayed publication of the report until he becomes prime minister.

The review team has consulted London School of Economics experts, who were highly critical of the original proposal on cost and workability grounds.

Academic Simon Burns, who has talked to the Crosby review, said: “I think Gordon Brown wants to create clear blue water between himself as premier and Tony Blair on the ID programme, without scrapping it like the Tories want. The Crosby report will help him justify such a move.”

Meanwhile Labour party sources say Mr Brown is considering a new “British Day to celebrate traditional national values. But he is understood to oppose a bank holiday because of the cost to the economy.

 2007 Associated Newspapers Limited  

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