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Digital ID cards are a strikingly un-British cultural idea. This can doubtless be expanded upon at length at election time.

Jacob Rees-Mogg has already set out in a video some of the aspects of how British political culture is different.

Others point out how digital identity is a tired World Economic Forum fantasy of the divorced-from-reality ultra-elite.

Britain has always had a subtle live and let live cultural approach that may have been liberally laced with hypocrisy but somehow worked.

This was till Boris who had American and Brussels aspects in his upbringing and amusingly went in for showman flag waving.

Stand in front of a flag and you are under pressure to say something that your population believes in and that, for sure, is not digital ID. Sit at a table with a tiny union flag at most at one end and people wonder genuinely what understated wisdom you are bringing.

Post-empire the British contribution to the nuts and bolts of making things work in the world was valued .... till, to be balanced, George Osborne cut funding to anyone explaining the nuts and bolts .... but now all there is is waffle about digital ID which will not work in the British cultural or political tradition.

It is subservience to other people's ideas.

Sure have change - but this?

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