The Tories objected to the multi-billion-pound cost and fretted a little over civil liberties. The LibDems inveighed against the surveillance society and objected, as a footnote, to mad bureaucratic extravagance.
Each had a point.
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Where’s the benefit in private sector chasing welfare cheats?
The Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition made short work, you may remember, of Labour’s plans for ID cards.
