Burnham backlash: UK Digital ID plans in peril if Manchester mayor succeeds Starmer

The government’s plans to introduce digital ID could be put in doubt if Andy Burnham, who spoke out against the scheme last September, replaces Keir Starmer as the UK prime minister. The Greater Manchester mayor told a session at the UK's Labour party conference in Manchester last autumn that he opposed digital ID given the problems the previous Labour government he had served in had experienced with ID cards. “I think there’s a risk of an opportunity cost situation here, where something can con