The United Kingdom last had compulsory national identity cards during World War II when they were introduced for security purposes. Wartime ID cards were finally withdrawn by the Churchill government in 1952 because of the tension they created between the police and innocent citizens. Proposals to reintroduce them have been raised on a number of occasions since then. During the early 2000s and 2010s, organisations such as No2ID campaigned against these proposals.
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| - The United Kingdom last had compulsory national identity cards during World War II when they were introduced for security purposes. Wartime ID cards were finally withdrawn by the Churchill government in 1952 because of the tension they created between the police and innocent citizens. Proposals to reintroduce them have been raised on a number of occasions since then. During the early 2000s and 2010s, organisations such as No2ID campaigned against these proposals. (en)
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| - The United Kingdom last had compulsory national identity cards during World War II when they were introduced for security purposes. Wartime ID cards were finally withdrawn by the Churchill government in 1952 because of the tension they created between the police and innocent citizens. Proposals to reintroduce them have been raised on a number of occasions since then. During the early 2000s and 2010s, organisations such as No2ID campaigned against these proposals. Identity cards were re-introduced in Britain in the Identity Cards Act 2006 as part of a state-approved counterterrorism initiative by then-Prime Minister Tony Blair, in response to the September 11 attacks in 2001 and 7/7 bombings in July 2005. This was subsequently repealed by the Identity Documents Act 2010 during the Conservative–Liberal Democrat coalition of 2010. In 2018, the question was raised again, with articles in The Economist and The Times considering whether it might help address concerns about citizenship and migration, particularly in the light of the Windrush scandal. At the end of April 2018, two former Home Secretaries, Charles Clarke and Alan Johnson called for a rethink on ID cards, saying that immigration targets would be useless without them. In September 2018 former Home Secretary Amber Rudd added her voice, saying that "Britain should adopt a new high-tech version of ID cards to tackle fraud, illegal immigration and welfare abuse." This was followed by similar considerations from another Home Office minister, Caroline Nokes, in 2019. (en)
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