Cabinet Office refuses to say if leaked Digital ID job is real

On 29 December, Rupert Lowe posted the following:

Sent to Restore Britain from a whistleblower – an internal job advert for a £81,000 Digital ID deputy director…

As you can see, their plans are fully underway.

We certainly have a big fight ahead of us in 2026.

We must say NO to Digital ID. pic.twitter.com/ydQy4QFIII

— Rupert Lowe MP (@RupertLowe10) December 29, 2025

As noted above, the position is allegedly ‘internal’. We certainly couldn’t see it listed on the Civil Service Jobs site, so we emailed the Cabinet Office to confirm if the position is real. Their response, frankly, was confusing.

What?

Our message to the Cabinet Office was completely straightforward:

Rupert Lowe claims that the Cabinet Office is recruiting a Digital ID Director.

We can’t see any evidence of this listing online – can you confirm if the listing is real, and if the answer is yes, why it isn’t publicly viewable on the Civil Service Jobs site.

The response provided from a Cabinet Office spokesperson was as follows:

We’ve all been shopping and banking online for years, and many other countries already have successful schemes.

Our new scheme will be inclusive, secure, and useful. It will give people more control over their data than they have now, and make public services easier to access and serve everyone better across the country.

We had to read this several times to work out what they were talking about.

Eventually, we realised that they were describing the Digital ID scheme without explicitly using the term ‘Digital ID’. Combined with the fact that the government is allegedly advertising Digital ID positions in secret, this seems to be a pretty good indicator that things are moving ahead, but they’re so shaken by the backlash to the policy that they dare not mention it by name.

They also provided some ‘background’ – once again without naming the dreaded policy:

• We are inviting the public to have their say in the upcoming consultation as we develop a safe, secure, and truly inclusive system for the UK.
• We expect the technology underpinning the new credential to be designed, built and run by in-house Government teams, not delegated to external suppliers.

We’ve provided background ourselves in previous articles, with the key thing we always come back to being this quote from billionaire Larry Ellison, relating to broader surveillance:

Well this isn’t terrifying at all. Here’s Blair talking to Oracles Larry Ellison.

"Citizens will be on their best behavior because we're constantly watching & recording everything that's going on."

Now you can see why Starmer is so keen on digital ID

pic.twitter.com/sZuB0tj02p

— Bernie (@Artemisfornow) September 28, 2025

Ellison is a dedicated Zionist who’s raised considerable sums for Friends of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF).

His family have recently bought themselves a media empire which includes Paramount and CBS News (soon to include TikTok). Recently, the inept columnist he made the head of CBS News spiked a story which was negative of the Trump administration, prompting widespread accusations of corruption.

Ellison is also a key financial supporter of the Tony Blair Institute, which is itself the organisation most responsible for pushing Digital ID on to an unwilling British public.

In other words, any argument for Digital ID is tainted by the fact that the people pushing for it are the least trustworthy people on the planet.

I firmly oppose the government’s plans for compulsory digital ID cards.

This is an affront to our civil liberties, and will make the lives of minorities even more difficult and dangerous.

It is excessive state interference — and must be resisted.

— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) September 25, 2025

Voldemortification

It really is quite astounding that this is where we’re at with Digital ID. As we covered in October, Keir Starmer went on a tweet spree to promote Digital ID; since then, the government has said basically nothing:

Keir Starmer has FOUR community notes from the last DAY calling him out for his lies and authoritarianism pic.twitter.com/SCxQJrHuC8

— Tiberius (@tiberiusfiles) October 24, 2025

As of right now, it looks like they plan to introduce this historically loathed policy by stealth. This shouldn’t be surprising given that even the widely hated data harvesters at Palantir felt a need to distance themselves from the policy which can’t be named.

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