ID cards have always been viewed with suspicion in the UK. For some people they can conjure up images of authoritarian states like Germany in the 1930s, and men in jackboots barking “May we see your papers please?” There were two periods when we had compulsory ID cards here in Britain. The first was during...
Paul SeddonPolitical reporter EPA/Shutterstock Nigel Farage has escalated his calls for the Bank of England to halt its bond-selling programme, in his first formal meeting with its governor. Reform UK argues the process, known as quantitative tightening, is saddling the taxpayer with billions in losses and pushing up government debt costs. Its deputy leader Richard...
Paul SeddonPolitical reporter Ed Davey: UK would become Trump’s America if Farage took power Sir Ed Davey has vowed to lead the fight against Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, as he accused him of wanting to turn the UK into “Trump’s America” in a speech to the Liberal Democrat conference. Painting a nightmarish vision of what...