{"id":292034,"date":"2025-09-27T11:17:56","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T01:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=292034"},"modified":"2025-12-22T17:24:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T07:24:52","slug":"keir-starmer-mandates-digital-id-for-all-uk-workers-by-2029","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=292034","title":{"rendered":"Keir Starmer Mandates Digital ID for All UK Workers by 2029"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced on September 26, 2025, at a London conference that all UK adults will require a free digital ID, dubbed the &#8216;Brit card,&#8217; to prove their right to work by the end of the current Parliament in 2029.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The policy integrates the ID with GOV.UK smartphone apps to enhance border security, reduce illegal employment, and eliminate paper documents, alongside a \u00a32.5 billion border investment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Opposition from leaders like Nigel Farage, Jeremy Corbyn, Boris Johnson, and John Swinney highlights privacy and civil liberties concerns, with a parliamentary petition surpassing one million signatures in 24 hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The policy integrates the ID with GOV.UK smartphone apps to enhance border security, reduce illegal employment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":292035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,85],"tags":[18263,7528,16713],"class_list":["post-292034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-uk","tag-boris-johnson","tag-digital-id","tag-keir-starmer"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=292034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292036,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292034\/revisions\/292036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/292035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=292034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=292034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=292034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}