London, Yiannis Haniotakis

Every employee at United Kingdom will be obliged to have a new digital identity to be issued by the government aimed at tackling illegal immigration and enhancing control over the labor market, as the Prime Minister will announce today Friday Star star.

The idea behind the so -called ‘Brit Card“Is that he will verify the right of a citizen to live and work in the country. According to the proposed plan, anyone who begins a new job should display the digital identity, which will be automatically checked in a central database with those who have a right to work in the United Kingdom. Digital identity will be mandatory for workers, but not for other adults, such as retirees.

Writing about Telegraph, Starmer said the government would create a “new, free digital identity that will be mandatory for the right to work until the end of this parliament”.

French President Emmanuel Macron has repeatedly warned that the lack of identity cards in the United Kingdom acts as an important attraction for immigrants crossing the Channel as they feel they can find work in the “black” economy.

The British prime minister is expected to announce more details in a speech in London on Friday, where he will argue that dependence on migration to fill gaps in the workforce “is not a compassionate leftist policy”.

This idea has long sparked reactions from groups to political freedom and privacy in the United Kingdom. Kir Starmer is said to have shared these concerns, but ended up in the idea of ​​high -level small boats record.

A report by the Tony Blair Institute published on Wednesday said that the digital identity could “help close the gaps that today’s human trafficking gangs and ruthless employers are reducing the attractions that lead to illegal immigration”.

The proposal, however, has also caused a strong political confrontation. Nigel Faraj’s reform UK party has already described the plan as an attack “in the freedoms of the British law” while conservative leaders, Khi Baidenoch, has spoken of “a desperate trick” that “will do nothing to stop”.

Public opinion seems to be largely supportive, although an application on the government’s website against identities had gathered more than 300,000 signatures by Thursday night.

During World War II, identities were mandatory in Britain, but were abolished by the Churchill government in 1952, which had promised to “liberate the people” after the rise of a movement that was opposed to them.