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Having ID would allow for much greater monitoring and control of immigration. The Tories never had a clear idea of how many immigrants were in the country because they'd put the kibosh on New Labour's ID card plans with the assistance of the Lib Dems way back when.
Having spent some time living in France and Spain, I can't say that having to carry ID would make me overly concerned. And I think if we had had ID cards then we probably wouldn't have gotten to Brexit. Given the choice again, think I'd much rather ID cards and technocratic tinkering with immigration numbers than performative nastiness by right-wing politicians morphing into actual physical nastiness in the street like we've seen the last few days.