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Christina Aguayo News's Post news Prime Minister Keir Starmer announces a mandatory digital ID that will be required in order to work in the UK#uk PM Starmer unveiled his plans for the mandatory digital ID, framing it as a tool to "secure Britain's borders and deter illegal migration." Speaking at the Global Progress Action Summit in London alongside world leaders from Canada and Australia, Starmer declared the initiative a "free-of-charge digital ID" that would become mandatory to have the right to work, effectively banning anyone without it from employment in the UK. However, critics say the move is a Trojan horse for expansive government control – a classic Labour overreach that burdens law-abiding citizens while doing little to deter illegal migrant crossings. Christina Aguayo News A petition, titled "Do not introduce Digital ID cards," explicitly opposes "the creation of any national ID system," citing the 2010 abolition as a wise precedent against state overreach. Launched hours after Starmer's announcement it surged past the 100,000-signature threshold for parliamentary debate consideration. As of midday the petition had 1,000,000 signatures, per official UK Parliament records and real-time trackers. By evening, it climbed to 1,289,032, with momentum building toward 1.5 million as calls to sign spread