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# ID cards, till death do us part
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/id-cards-till-death-do-us-part/
- Published: 2007-06-19T20:06:14.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:36:29.000Z
- Author: openDemocracy Supporters
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 18:23

**Anthony Barnett (London,** [**OK**](http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2007/05/09/britain-to-have-a-written-constitution/?ref=opendemocracy.net)**):** “I take the view that it is part of being a good citizen, proving who you are, day in day out” Liam Byrne MP, the Minister of State for Immigration, Citizenship & Nationality, told a Chatham House conference today, after telling the Today programme ID cards would become a great British institution, like the Poll Tax perhaps. For the full speech and blow-by-blow expose of its argument see [UK Liberty](http://ukliberty.wordpress.com/2007/06/19/id-cards-will-be-a-great-british-institution/?ref=opendemocracy.net). Most of the public still think that an ID card is something you have, not something that has you. This speech may help dispel the illusion.