Yvette Cooper: introduce l’ID digitale per reprimere la migrazione illegale
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/06/03/yvette-cooper-migration-parliament-crossings/
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Yvette Cooper: introduce l’ID digitale per reprimere la migrazione illegale
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/06/03/yvette-cooper-migration-parliament-crossings/
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The Home Secretary has called for the creation of a digital service for e-visas and border control which would allow the Government to figure out who is in Britain legally.
Yvette Cooper faced questions from MPs after record numbers of migrants crossed the Channel over the weekend.
Nearly 1,200 made the crossing illegally on Saturday, the highest number of people so far this year in a single day.
Defence Secretary John Healey later admitted that Britain had “lost control of its borders”.
Yvette Cooper said the Home Office was pushing for a “digital ID for everyone coming to the UK”.
She said: “We want to have a digital service linked to e-visas and linked to our border management process to be able to determine whether an individual is in or out of the UK, whether they have left at the point at which their visa expires or whether they are overstaying and immigration enforcement action is needed.”
She added: “We also want to ensure e-visas can effectively be used as a way of having that digital ID around the ability to work, to be here lawfully.”
Ms Cooper said the Government had increased illegal working raids by 40 per cent since the election and increased arrests for illegal working by around 40 per cent.
She acknowledged that the public’s “strongest concerns” were about small boat crossings but insisted there needed to be “order and control across the board”.
The number of “red days” – when Border Force expects a surge in small boats due to calm seas – have been “unusually high” in 2024-25.
Ministers claim the figures go some way to explain why the first five months of this year have seen a record 14,812 crossings, up 42 per cent on the same period in 2024.
Introduce digital id to
~~Stop terrorism~~
~~stop benefit fraud~~
Crack down on illegal migration
Maybe third time will be a charm?
Doesn’t everyone already have to prove they can work in the UK, to get work legally?
Please do it, The current QR code system is dogshit
I have no way to sign into apps prove who I am or use IDs online if I don’t have a driving license. The UK feels incredibly broken in so many ways people don’t understand.
If a well designed system with high enough security is made we have more chances of banks getting hacked and than the ID system, why is there so much fear mongering behind ID cards
This is not news. The concept of electronic visas has been in use for years for some types of immigrants (EU settled status holders) and is now the default method for all other types of visas.
It’s a very dangerous proposal that will strip us of further freedoms.
We are on a dangerous trajectory.
If they were serious about illegall immigration they would have cracked down on Deliveroo and Uber a long time ago.
This is a solution looking for a question, in the same way it has done for a generation.
But if it’s given out to everybody then it effectively becomes an amnesty for the one million illegals already here. That’s their true plan with this.
They can’t even stop the boats from landing on the beach, or stop illegal immigrants from entering through ports.
They know who and where a large portion are, “their housing them in hotels across the country” What’s digital ID going to do?
Digital id again in the guise of solving a cross party policy mess.
I’m still waiting for this one pension pot they promised us. You know the one that follows you round?
I just want it to integrate my medical records, ideally integrated with large scale AI pattern analysis.