Name: 英國政府取消強制性數位身分證計畫！BBC新聞報導 (Government drops plans for mandatory digital ID to work in UK | BBC News)
Uploaded: 2026-01-14T17:20:45.000Z
Duration: 3 min 17 s

Here the Government has dropped plans to require people to sign up to its digital ID scheme in order to prove their right to work in the UK.

政府已經放棄了要求民眾註冊其數位身分證計畫以證明他們在英國工作的權利。

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Nearly 3 million people had signed a petition to Parliament opposing the proposal to make the IDs mandatory.

近三百萬人簽署了請願書給國會，反對將身分證列為強制性提案。

The change of policy is the latest in a series of climb downs by the government.

這項政策的改變是政府一系列讓步中的最新一項。

The Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, was asked about the Government's Rollback on digital IDs on BBC Breakfast on the digital ID for starters.

財政大臣瑞秋·李維斯在BBC早餐節目中被問到政府在數位身分證上的政策轉彎，首先是關於數位身分證。

I do think this story has been a bit overwritten.

我認為這個故事有點被過度報導了。

We are saying that you will need mandatory digital ID to be able to work in the uk.

我們說你需要強制性的數位身分證才能在英國工作。

Now, the difference is whether that has to be a one piece of id, a digital ID card, or whether it could be an E visa or an E passport.

現在，差別在於那必須是一張身分證件、一張數位身分證卡，還是可以是電子簽證或電子護照。

The Prime Minister wasn't very relaxed about it when he stood at a lectern only a few weeks ago and said, this is absolutely going to happen.

首相幾週前站在講臺上時對此並不放心，他說，這絕對會發生。

It's really important to have a digital ID that we're going to introduce.

我們將要推出數位身分證，這真的很重要。

嗯，不是，不是，但要是數位的。

We don't have digital passports today, as you know.

你知道的，我們今天沒有數位護照。

This will be about having digital checks that you have to verify that you can work in the uk.

這將是關於要有數位驗證，你必須驗證你可以在英國工作。

And there's a reason for this because at the moment people are undercut by illegal cheap labour, which drives down wages and standards and conditions for people who do have a right to work in the uk.

這樣做是有原因的，因為目前人們會被非法的廉價勞工削價競爭，這會壓低在英國有工作權的人的薪資、標準和條件。

And we're going to root that out with these digital checks.

我們將透過這些數位驗證來根除這一點。

Now, our chief political correspondent Henry Zefferman told us more about the reaction to this U turn.

現在，我們的首席政治記者 Henry Zefferman 告訴我們更多關於這次政策轉彎的反應。

I think there is no getting away from the fact that this is a significant change to the policy as first announced by Zakir Starmer just four months ago.

我認為我們無法迴避一個事實，那就是這與 Zakir Starmer 在四個月前首次宣佈的政策有顯著的改變。

As a reminder of what the Prime Minister said back in September.

提醒一下首相在九月時說過的話。

He said, you will not be able to work in the United Kingdom if you do not have digital id.

他說，如果你沒有數位身分證，你就無法在英國工作。

And what he meant by digital id there pretty clearly was this new digital ID system that the government is rolling out.

而他當時說的數位身分證，很明顯就是政府正在推行的這個新的數位身分證系統。

It turned out not to be as simple as that.

The government is still rolling out digital ID and they hope that many people will take it up, but

政府仍在推行數位身分證，而且他們希望很多人會採用，但是

I think it's partly to do with the fact that this became an unpopular policy and the Government was anxious about that.

我認為這部分是因為這項政策變得不受歡迎，而政府對此感到憂慮。

Detracting from what they still hope will be a pretty significant transformation to how public services work as a result of this digital id, even if that's pretty different.

這削弱了他們仍然希望藉由這張數位身分證，讓公共服務運作方式產生重大轉變的目標，即使這與原本的目標有些不同。

To the rather narrow explanation that was originally given for digital id, which was to combat illegal immigration.

與最初為數位身分證提出的、相當狹隘的解釋相比，也就是為了打擊非法移民。

Specifically, in terms of the reaction to this, well, as you'd expect, the government's political opponents are pretty unimpressed.

具體來說，對於這項政策的反應，嗯，正如你所預料的，政府的政敵們並不買帳。

Reform UK still saying this is a victory for individual liberty, the Liberal democrats saying number 10 must be bulk ordering motion sickness tablets to cope with all the U turns, and

Reform UK 黨仍舊表示這是個人自由的勝利，自由民主黨則說唐寧街十號肯定在大量訂購暈車藥來應對這些政策轉彎，還有

the Conservatives questioning Keir Starmer's authority.

保守黨質疑 Keir Starmer 的權威。

I have to say that is also what I'm hearing from a lot of Labour MPs today who are questioning why they bother going out to defend government policy against their constituents, who are maybe critical of it, when they can't be sure that before long the government won't just change their minds.

我必須說，這也是我今天從許多工黨國會議員那裡聽到的，他們質疑為何要費心去為政府的政策辯護，對抗那些可能批評它的選民，因為他們無法確定政府不久後不會改變心意。

And that was our chief political correspondent Henry Zeffman.

這就是我們的首席政治記者 Henry Zeffman。