As I understand it, the major markets for unlawful workers are modern slavers and “gig economy” workers who rent out their accounts to people who can’t legally work. The former are criminals who will ignore the ID card requirement and the latter will slip through the net as only the original account owner will be ID checked. Starmer must know this is all smoke and mirrors and will be massively unpopular. It’s like he’s decided he’s going to get kicked out of number 10 and is going scorched-earth on his way out. #ukpolitics #IDCards