Prime Minister Keir Starmer is set to announce that all adults in the UK will be required to have a government-issued digital ID card.

New plans, which Starmer will unveil tomorrow, are hoped to help tackle levels of illegal immigration and make it easier to identify if a citizen can live and work in the UK.

The so-called ‘Brit-card’ would be shown when starting a new job, and would be checked in a large database of people entitled to work in the UK.

Earlier this month, home secretary Shabana Mahmood said: ‘I think that a system of digital ID can also help with illegal working and the enforcement of other laws as well. I do think that has a role to play in dealing with our migration.

‘My long-term personal political view has always been in favour of ID cards.’

But privacy groups have

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