Monday, September 29, 2003
New Labour has never been that good about disagreeing in public, so the fact that Patricia Hewitt, the Trade and Industry Secretary has 'grave reservations' against ID Cards and, although her reservations aren't on the subject of human dignity per se, she has put her finger on one of the main problems of Government policy which stretches back before Labour came to power to the days of the Tories, the technology tends not to work at a cost that's usually much higher than what was originally promised.
