According to an article in The Register, an attempt to put a face-saving downscaled version into place threatens to wreck the UK ID card scheme sooner, rather than later. An email exchange between David Foord of the Office of Government Commerce and Peter Smith, acting commercial director of the Identity and Passport Service, leaked to the Sunday Times, paints a picture of an impossible mission, a "Mr Blair" driving a cut-down "early variant" card and a Passport Service already making contingency plans in anticipation of ID cards crashing in flames.
The full Register article: UK ID card scheme near collapse
