SIR - Could we please have a response from Mr Foster - is this true?

The Government reportedly has plans for Identity Cards and a National Identity Register. From October this year, to get or renew a passport, you must go to Luton or Northampton and be fingerprinted and eye-scanned. You will be "interviewed" to extract large amounts of personal information that will be filed on the National Identity Register. You will pay not £51 but £93 and be signed up for an ID card allowing officials and data companies to track your every move. The new Identity and Passport Service is under the Home Office, which we now learn is a shambles. Will we give these idiots billions of our taxes for a vast electronic system which at best treats us like criminals, and, if it crashes, could shut down our lives?

Senior judges, peers and MPs say it is the biggest-ever extension of state power over the citizen. It was that fear which made Churchill scrap Second World War ID cards in 1953, though they were just paper. Get your passport now and you will gain up to 10 years breathing space, and certainly not be in the front line of victims. The longer you avoid going on the National Identity Register, the more likely a new government will dump the whole scheme.

MARTIN ROBERTS,

Worcester BNP