Hah this is the UK. No, it'll be optional to begin with to make people like you asking important questions seem like a whacko. Then once they use propaganda to make people opt into it, and it reaches mass adoption, then it'll quietly be made mandatory - or extremely annoying not to have it

No, it will be mandatory right from the start, and employers will be required to check it

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/digital-id-ca...