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Tony Blair: “People give a lot more information probably to their supermarkets than they will to the government.”
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair has said it is "common sense to move in the direction of digital IDs" as part of efforts to fight coronavirus.
Mr Blair
said there should be a record kept by the government of those vaccinated against the virus.
The government recently set out plans to change laws to enable the use of digital identity across the UK.
As prime minister, Mr Blair launched a compulsory ID card scheme, but it was scrapped by the coalition government.
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