Email leak fuels clamour to scrap ID cards scheme

This could rumble on perhaps, and that would probably be good news. For now let me pick out one quote that nutshells it. David Davis, the shadow home secretary, warned:

"These are all the classic signs of a Whitehall IT project about to go disastrously wrong. These civil servants can see plainly what the government refuses to accept. The prime minister's obsession with this project will actually weaken our security and cost at least £20bn. It's time they admitted failure and cancelled this project."

That's what we've been saying all along.
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