Whitehall shuts the front door on digital ID but leaves the back open

Britain's national digital ID scheme may be dead, but Whitehall appears to have forgotten to tell the infrastructure. Despite the government scrapping its controversial plans , officials told MPs on Monday that work continues on GOV.UK One Login, digital wallets, and a growing collection of digital credentials designed to help people prove who they are. The abandoned scheme was one of Keir Starmer's flagship policies, originally pitched as a compulsory digital ID card to crack down on illegal wo