Sir Keir Starmer’s Britain has been compared to “1930s central Europe” in a scathing attack on the Prime Minister’s digital ID rollout.
Speaking to GB News, former Tory Cabinet Minister Sir Gavin Williamson expressed outrage at the plans, saying Britain risks becoming a “surveillance state”.
After confirming the plans for digital ID to be in place “before the end of this Parliament”, Labour is now set to weigh up the prospect of rolling out the identification to Britons as young as 13.
Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said the Government will be “consulting on the details” of how they could “make it work”.
Gavin Williamson has hit out at Keir Starmer’s ‘surveillance state’ policy on digital ID cards
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Asked for his verdict on the current Labour Government, Sir Gavin told GB News: “I’ve got to obviously say a sort of one out of ten ranking.
“You’ve got Rachel [Reeves] who’s managed to crash the economy and talk us all down, you’ve got Keir Starmer who wants to turn Britain into a sort of a mimic of 1930s Central Europe, and you’ve got Bridget [Phillipson] who’s wanting to squeeze opportunities.”
GB News host Tom Harwood was astonished by the Tory MP’s remarks: “Sorry, did you just say Keir Starmer wants to turn Britain into 1930s Central Europe? Is that is that a reference to 1930s Germany?”
Sir Gavin responded: “Well, what you’ve got is you’ve got the surveillance state. You’ve got a complete overreach on this, and you’ve got a wanting to have national ID cards in every aspect of life.
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“That’s quite simply wrong, and it’s not what this country is about.”
Taken aback by the comparison, Tom declared that Sir Gavin’s comments were the “furthest he’s ever heard a Conservative MP go”.
Tom told co-host Nana Akua: “It’s important to clarify what he meant by Central Europe in 1930s, that’s the Nazi party. That is a senior Conservative MP saying that Keir Starmer is behaving like a Nazi.
“That’s the furthest I’ve ever heard a Conservative MP go on about this.”
Mr Williamson compared Labour’s Britain to ‘1930s central Europe’
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In disagreement with Tom, Nana argued that Sir Gavin may not have meant Germany specifically in his remarks.
She explained: “He said Europe, it doesn’t necessarily mean 1930s Germany does it? He didn’t say Germany, he said 1930s Europe. Europe is a big place.
“He just means that it feels like a totalitarian regime, which is a comparison, not that it was Nazi.”
Tom hit back, concluding: “It’s pretty clear what he was saying, at the very least it’s fascist and authoritarian.”