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Ministers may have scrapped the national scheme, but One Login, digital wallets and 80-plus planned credentials are still very much alive

Britain's national digital ID scheme may be dead, but Whitehall appears to have forgotten to tell the infrastructure.

Despite the government scrapping its controversial plans , officials told MPs on Monday that work continues on GOV.UK One Login, digital wallets, and a growing collection of digital credentials designed to help people prove who they are.

The abandoned scheme was one of Keir Starmer's flagship policies, originally pitched as a compulsory digital ID card to crack down on illegal working. Privacy campaigners weren't impressed, warning of surveillance and government overreach, and ministers eventually made it voluntary before Andy Burnham, decided to bin the whole thing.

But scrapping the scheme hasn't dented Whitehall's digital identity ambitions.…