Having lost the faith of his party and the public, the prime minister turns to dad jokes – and he’s even worse at those than running the country Not another one. On Tuesday evening, the government announced that it wasn’t going to make digital ID cards mandatory after all . Just months after Keir Starmer had made digital ID cards the cornerstone of his plans to stop migrants working illegally. It’s getting hard to keep up. At Christmas, we had the U-turn on inheritance tax on farms . In the New Year, we had a U-turn on business rates for pubs . All U-turns that were undoubtedly for the better. All U-turns that came with their own numbing predictability. Almost as if the government hadn’t thought things through. Surely not. Continue reading...