Sollitt says "ID Cards are expensive and won't work"

4.15.12pm GMT Sat 5th Nov 2005

Steve Sollitt, Liberal Democrat Campaigner for Southampton Test is backing a national campaign to stop Identity Cards in their tracks.

Tony Blair has pledged to push a law through Parliament in the next few months to allow ID cards to be introduced. The Liberal Democrats are leading the campaign to stop the bill being passed. As part of their campaign they have launched a national petition calling for the plans to be scrapped.

Steve said 'The ID cards will cost billions of pounds and will be a huge waste of money,'

'With the largest group of Lib Dem MPs for eighty years, we are leading the opposition to ID cards in Parliament. Now we want the public to back the campaign so that we can show Tony Blair what people really think of his plans to impose ID cards in Britain.'

'ID cards won't stop terrorists but they will cost the taxpayer billions to introduce - and then the Government will force people to pay £85 each to hold one.'

We have launched an 'on-line' version of the petition which can be found at www.libdems.org.uk/noidcards