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Still, an early general election would put the brakes on this bill. The next Labour government will be under no pressure to pick it back up, and in fact will likely be under quite a bit of pressure to let it go.

This is the sort of terrible throwaway law that results from lame-duck governments.

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What do you base that on?

My understanding is this bill will have cross party support and has been in development for many many years.

It might be politically expedient to abandon it at some point, but the mainstream media largely have completely ignored it and the public have little knowledge of it but at all

Many many years with the same party in power. Whereas New Labour, at the peak of their electoral dominance, couldn't even pass a bill to get an ID card the rest of Europe has had for centuries.

It's much easier to whip the right-wing into a frenzy when the government is not their natural friend.

Labour did introduce ID cards. It was one of the first acts of the Cameron government to scrap it.

Yeah because they had committed to it, the act was stillborn and everyone knew it.

Your entirely false recollection of history is because you start with a premise and work backwards.

Labour's official stance is this and related bills don't go far enough.

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