Ex-MI6 boss backs calls for digital ID cards to help deter small boat crossings

Former MI6 boss Sir Alex Younger is backing calls for digital ID cards to help deter small boat crossings. It was reported last month that Downing Street is exploring a proposal to introduce digital ID cards for every adult in Britain to check an individual’s right to live and work in Britain. “It’s absolutely obvious to me that people should have a digital identity,” he told BBC Newsnight on Thursday (10 July). “Let’s stop shouting at the French; a lot of this is on us,” he added. It comes as Sir Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron agreed a “groundbreaking” one-in, one-out migration deal at the end of a historic three-day state visit by the French president.