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Former Labour prime minister and Conservative leaders Tony Blair and William Hague have come together to argue everyone in the UK should be issued digital IDs.

Former prime minister Tony Blair and former Conservative leader William Hague have called for everyone in the UK to be issued a digital ID. The former political rivals have come together to argue that government records on the population are still “based in a different era”, and need an update.

Digital IDs is a controversial subject, with opponents arguing that it infringes on civil liberties and is an unnecessary and intrusive collection of data and personal information by the government. A plan to introduce the IDs was tried and later scrapped by the coalition government while Blair was PM.

Tony Blair and William Hague call for everyone in UK to be issued digital IDs