Blair’s Britain Returns: No Juries, £1.8Bn Digital ID — and No Democratic Consent
Two policies the Government never ran on — and both revive failed Blair-era ideas Britain already rejected.
Ahead of the Budget, a confidential Ministry of Justice report leaked, revealing plans to scrap jury trials for most criminal cases in England and Wales. Not in the manifesto. Not announced publicly. And strikingly similar to an agenda pushed by Tony Blair two decades ago.
If the Government hoped this would slip out unnoticed, they misjudged the moment.
Juries are not a decorative tradition — they are a public safeguard against state power. Remove them, and you remove the public from the judiciary.
This leak comes alongside what I highlighted in my article Jail for Speech, Freedom for Dangerous Criminals - a 65% rise in public-order imprisonments, many for speech-related offences.
More people are being jailed. And now a proposal to remove the public’s oversight entirely.
What the leaked proposals actually do
Under the plan:
Only the gravest offences — murder, manslaughter, rape — would retain juries
All other cases, including offences carrying up to five years in prison, would be judge only
No party proposed this in the election
And historically, Tony Blair tried to limit jury trials in the 2000s — Parliament stopped him then
Now that same instinct has quietly returned.
A case that shows why juries matter
Former Royal Marine Jamie Michael was prosecuted for “stirring up racial hatred” over a Facebook video. He pleaded not guilty, so the case went before a jury.
They deliberated and threw it out unanimously in under an hour.
Ordinary citizens doing what the justice system relies on: stopping state overreach when it happens.
Under these proposals, that protection disappears
A case like Michael’s — politically sensitive, involving speech and context — would not go before a jury at all. It would be decided by a single judge, under public and political pressure.
Would the verdict have been the same? That’s the uncomfortable question no minister wants to answer.
On Government Overreach — £1.8bn for Digital ID, Buried in the Budget
On the same day the jury plans leaked, another major policy loomed into view again — also not in the manifesto, and also carrying Blair’s fingerprints - Digital ID.
Tony Blair attempted it in the 2000s. The public rejected it. Parliament dismantled it.
Now the same architecture is being revived — again without a mandate.
The full cost of the scheme — £1.8 billion — appeared buried in the OBR documents, not in the Chancellor’s speech. There is no new money for it; the Home Office is expected to absorb the cost within its existing budget, meaning cuts to other areas.
Rachel Reeves continued the fiction
Rachel Reeves claimed:
“The introduction of Digital ID will break the link between illegal migration and illegal working.”
This is demonstrably false. As I explained previously:
Countries with Digital ID still have large illegal workforces
Fraud and identity theft remain widespread
The UK already has digital right-to-work checks — and illegal working has risen, not fallen
If Digital ID genuinely “broke the link”, we would see evidence somewhere. We don’t.
And here’s the giveaway: they’re including children
Children are not working illegally
Children are not renting illegally
Children are not claiming benefits illegally
So why include them?
Because this isn’t about illegal working. It’s about creating a cradle-to-grave identity system, controlled by the state and woven into every part of daily life.
A system Blair tried to build — and which is now quietly being revived.
Two Policies. No Mandate. One Legacy.
In one day, the Government:
moved to remove the public from the justice system, and
committed £1.8bn to a Digital ID system that includes children
Neither policy was in any manifesto. Both echo Tony Blair’s abandoned agenda. And both shift power from the public to the state.
So the question remains: Who is really running Britain?
✍️ Jamie Jenkins
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