Is Lord Blunkett right to call for ID cards?

WHAT an excellent article by David Blunkett. Even in the past, opposition to ID cards was nonsense, fuelled by a warped sense of libertarianism. And, as Lord Blunkett points out, most of us are tracked everywhere we go anyway.

JUDITH AUSTIN, Sherborne, Dorset.

THIS is not some Orwellian deep-state surveillance; and anything that might stop the migrant boats should be investigated. Bring on ID cards, I say.

CLIVE HANDEL, Cambridge.

LORD BLUNKETT is spot on. There are even more reasons now to introduce a biometric card system than there were during the war.

KEITH NORTON, Ely, Cambs.

HOW ID cards would stop illegal migrants in boats arriving on Uk shores is difficult to fathom. Would those without them be told to return from whence they came, and they would simply comply? Ridiculous.

B. CHANNING, Pembroke, Dyfed.

I AM even more in favour of ID cards than I was when they were first proposed, and would happily change my usual Tory vote to any party promising to introduce them. Within a generation, they would be the norm.

ANNE CARR, Falmouth, Cornwall.

NATIONS that require their citizens to carry ID cards also have the problem of illegal migration. Lord Blunkett’s idea is not British.

GAVIN ROEBUCK, London N1.

COME on Rishi, look into this. It might be an easier way than Rwanda.

BRIAN MACDONALD, Quorn, Leics.

I BACKED Lord Blunkett’s proposal years ago but, as usual, it was talked down by the liberal-minded minority.

W. D. GARRATT, Furness Vale, Derbys.

HAD ID cards been introduced in the past, they could have answered other challenges, such as providing evidence of being 18 and eligibility to vote.

JOHN BENNETT, Dereham, Norfolk.

LORD BLUNKETT suggests that if we all had ID cards in order to share the benefits of the NHS, welfare and the opportunity to work, those ineligible would be easy to identify. But we already know who they are. We give them a taxi ride to the Uk, log them and house them in hotels for years, although none of them has ID. It wouldn’t stop the boats.

GEOFF RECORD, Wincanton, Somerset.