News reports are surfacing that the plan to implement UK ID cards by 2010 has been slipped to 2012, i.e., after the next election, according to a leaked government strategy paper. The plan, however, is still that by 2015, access to certain government services will require use of the ID Card, like here with REAL ID, thereby "encouraging" everyone to get one.
All the bad publicity from the data scandals has probably helped influence the new strategy.
However, the government, while not exactly denying the delay, said that it was fully committed to introducing the cards, regardless. Unless, of course, the current government loses the next election.
