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The UK government isn’t allowed to issue mandatory ID cards after the Identity Documents Act 2010: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/40/crossheading/rep

The UK government isn’t allowed to issue mandatory ID cards after the Identity Documents Act 2010: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/40/crossheading/repeal-of-identity-cards-act-2006 https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/40/crossheading/re... No ID cards are to be issued by the Secretary of State at any time on or after the day on which this Act is passed. The UK equivalent of a SSN is a National Insurance number, but it’s totally possible to be a citizen without one (e.g. naturalised non-working spouse). NI numbers also aren‘t guaranteed to be unique (if a person is assigned a temporary NI number it’ll be non-unique with other people with the same birth date).

psergeant 8y ago
> The UK government isn’t allowed to This is reasonably misleading, as nothing at all stops a new government with a parliamentary majority from simply scrapping that law.
- robin_reala 8y ago
  That applies to absolutely anything a government could decide to want to do though. If you want to be picky then yes, the UK government currently isn’t allowed to issue ID cards.
  - psergeant 8y ago
    > That applies to absolutely anything a government could decide to want to do though Mmm, that’s not true. Courts recognise EU supremacy over the British parliament, although it would be possible to ant-fuck this point if you were feeling truly pedantic.