Scheme intended to verify someone’s right to work in the UK will be optional, government admitted in 13th U-turn since taking power

I wouldn’t normally post Times articles but they seem to be the first to run this bit of rare good news.

  • ImNotThatPokable@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 hours ago

    I’m not from the UK and also don’t have any background on this, can you perhaps explain why it’s overreach?

    I would think that ID documents being digital is a logical step to digitisation.