{"id":20301,"date":"2025-10-01T14:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T12:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/01\/reverse-midas-touch-starmer-plan-prompts-collapse-in-support-for-digital-ids\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T14:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T12:38:11","slug":"reverse-midas-touch-starmer-plan-prompts-collapse-in-support-for-digital-ids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/01\/reverse-midas-touch-starmer-plan-prompts-collapse-in-support-for-digital-ids\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Reverse Midas touch\u2019: Starmer plan prompts collapse in support for digital IDs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Net public backing for scheme has fallen to -14% after prime minister\u2019s announcement, according to polling<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2025\/oct\/01\/keir-starmer-labour-conference-nigel-farage-reform-uk-politics-latest-news-updates\">UK politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Public support for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/idcards\">digital IDs<\/a> has collapsed after Keir Starmer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2025\/sep\/26\/keir-starmer-digital-id-cards-enormous-opportunity-uk\">announced plans<\/a> for their introduction, in what has been described as a symptom of the prime minister\u2019s \u201creverse Midas touch\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Net support for digital ID cards fell from 35% in the early summer to -14% at the weekend after Starmer\u2019s announcement, according to polling by More in Common.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2025\/oct\/01\/keir-starmer-labour-collapse-public-support-digital-id-cards\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/71a01216f3578b059428497e3ab9773675dfa6d9\/0_0_4800_3840\/master\/4800.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=7f45a76f5a0de0ac9704ee8bed097f78\" title=\"\u2018Reverse Midas touch\u2019: Starmer plan prompts collapse in support for digital IDs\" \/>Net public backing for scheme has fallen to -14% after prime minister\u2019s announcement, according to polling<br \/>\nUK politics live \u2013 latest updates<br \/>\nPublic support for digital IDs has collapsed after Keir Starmer announced plans for their introduction, in what has been described as a symptom of the prime minister\u2019s \u201creverse Midas touch\u201d.<br \/>\nNet support for digital ID cards fell from 35% in the early summer to -14% at the weekend after Starmer\u2019s announcement, according to polling by More in Common. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Net public backing for scheme has fallen to -14% after prime minister\u2019s announcement, according to polling UK politics live \u2013 latest updates Public support for digital IDs has collapsed after Keir Starmer announced plans for their introduction, in what has been described as a symptom of the prime minister\u2019s \u201creverse Midas touch\u201d. Net support for &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/01\/reverse-midas-touch-starmer-plan-prompts-collapse-in-support-for-digital-ids\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Reverse Midas touch\u2019: Starmer plan prompts collapse in support for digital IDs<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20301"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}