Trevor Mendham

A Nation Divided

ID Cards still have majority support, but opposition is deep & entrenched

  • 61% of the population support compulsory identity cards. This contrasts markedly with repeated claims by government that 80% are in favour of its proposal.

  • It appears that the number of people who strongly support ID cards has fallen from 50% (in the April 2004 MORI poll) to 40%

  • Those strongly opposed has doubled from 6% to 12% in the four weeks since the MORI poll.

  • The MORI poll concluded that only one in five people are prepared to pay for the government’s ID card.


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A Nation Divided

- About Privacy International

- Background

- Key Findings

- ID Cards still have majority support, but opposition is deep & entrenched

- People do not want their address connected to the ID card

- Financial penalties are deeply opposed

- People are prepared to go to prison over the ID card

- A conundrum for the Tories