Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 2:52 pm on 30 April 2019.
The Earl of Erroll
Crossbench
2:52,
30 April 2019
Does the noble Baroness’s department have a corporate memory of the fact that during the war we had identity cards for three purposes? Soon after the war, these were extended to around 50 purposes. As a result, we had a bonfire of ID cards in about 1952, for very good reasons. We are not a country that likes being controlled by various authoritarian people.