British parliamentarians have called for a reappraisal on the concept of national ID cards amid the migrant crisis and following the terrorist attacks in Paris.Writing in the Guardian, Frank Field MP and Sir Nicholas Soames MP say it is to re-consider the introduction of national identity cards.In 2001, a coalition government scrapped Labour's identity card scheme over concerns that privacy could be risked by its reliance on a centralised database."Pinning people down to one identity makes it much harder for them to operate in the shadows, for example, in organised crime or money laundering", write the MPs."We are a welcoming and remarkably tolerant country. To keep it that way, the public need to be confident that the government has control over who enters our country and who remains here".
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