NIGEL Farage has issued a warning over ID cards saying they could be dangerous if the country “had a government that really was extreme”.

Speaking on GB News, Farage said: “The government’s plans for digital ID have been unveiled. It’s something that’s been wanted, of course, going back to Tony Blair’s time. It’s just that now, with technology, there wouldn’t even be cards. It would all be on your phone.

“We’re told it’s to stop illegal immigration, but then I filmed them, 12 miles from Dover, chucking their passports and iPhones in the sea, so that argument doesn’t work at all.

“But the argument they think is going to work with you, that we have digital ID will stop legal working. Well, I’ve got a bit of a shock for all of you.

“If you are foreign national, want to work in this country and go to an employer, the employer, legally has to ask you for your share code which comes in a digital form, on your app, on your phone. And legally, who, as a foreign worker, have to give it to the employer, and the employer has to take it from you before you can be taken on.

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“We already have digital ID for foreign workers. This will make no difference at all. By definition, if you’re working illegally, you’re working illegally.

“So because the government can’t control our borders, because the government has absolutely no control over the massive illegal economy has to potentially all lose our freedoms.

“I am totally against this. We saw a specimen of this, did we not, through the pandemic, where we had to prove whether we’d been jabbed, and there were two types of citizen created.

“The reason for it was, if you hadn’t been jabbed, you would pass on the virus but if you had been jabbed, you couldn’t. Which was, as we learned later, a complete, utter lie. It was not true in any way at all.

“And you know, we might say that British governments would never misuse digital ID. Well, what if you had a government that really was extreme? What if you got a government that decided whole groups of people were actually their enemies?

“I think this is the most illiberal thing that could ever be proposed. I don’t see any possible benefit from it and the fact that Tony Blair is still behind the whole thing, and those close to him might benefit from it, makes me even more determined.”