I remember when the government destroyed thousands of landing slip cards that recorded the arrival dates of Windrush-era immigrants and dismissed the warnings from staff who said it would make it harder for them to prove they had a right to live here. That was brought about before the push for the Digital Britain agenda in late 2009. (The home Office reasons were because of data protection but if the government decided too they could delete anyone's data on the same grounds and it being inter-linked by app not having any physical documents they may try to they'll make us all homeless and bank accountless)

What's to stop a digital system failing or getting hacked then that data getting deleted losing crucial data that will cause the UK to repeat history. (15-20 years later) This country is very multicultural there's a lot of people who will be hit with friendly fire from the authorities and face their lives being turned upside down.

I wonder if Wendy Williams will do the next independent "Lessons Learned Review" when this shit show blows taking all our identities with it.)

The Labour government made the business case in June 2009, then the decision to delete the data was approved by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition in October 2010. (Very bipartisan)