The government’s ID cards programme is “utterly discredited”, according to Antony Little, the Conservative’s Parliamentary spokesman for Norwich South.
The criticisms follow an announcement by the government that the scheme is to be delayed because of an 18-month trial for workers at Manchester and London City airports.
Cllr Little said that the delay was evidence that the grounds for ID cards was “constantly being rewritten” and called for the money to be used to support the economy instead.
He said: “The ID cards project will put the personal data of every citizen in this country at risk and the costs are enormous. At this time of economic hardship, how can the Government seriously expect the public to pay out billions for this expensive white elephant?
“A Conservative government would scrap Labour’s plastic poll tax.”
