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Hello, it's Friday, which means it's nearly the end of another very momentous week in British politics.

So, as usual, on a Friday, I've got together lots of friends of newscast to have a chat about what we've learned this week.

And to dig into some

of the news stories to see if there's little nuggets maybe we didn't notice at the time, but which

might literally flower into something more important down the line. So that's what you're going

to hear now in this episode of Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. Fat boy slivered me in the

classroom doing our violin lessons. I was the tappletail in the class. Can I have an apology please? I trust almost nobody. That daddy has to sometimes do strong language. Next time in Moscow. I feel delulu with no salulu. Take me down to Downey Street. Let's go have a tour. Blimey. Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio. And it's Chris in the newscast studio. And it's Vicky in the newscast studio. And it's also Joe in the newscast studio. And we're surrounded by photos of other people who are occasionally on newscast but aren't here today, just so we can remember them. Also, I feel like hovering above us all is Andy Burnham. Like his spirit of the mayor of Greater Manchester. That's what they think, Daddust Street as well, yeah. Well, because they like him to not be around anymore. And we will talk about that in a minute. But Chris, a huge, huge story broke this afternoon. But it was one that you'd got wind of a few weeks ago from the Prime Minister, that he's now going to go hell for leather on compulsory ID cards for everyone in Britain. Yeah, it just happened to appear on a day when the Andy Burnham story would otherwise have been at top of the news bulletins. And yeah, it has been in the gestation for a while, including publicly. So we saw Pack McFadden, the now working pension secretary on a trip to Estonia a few weeks ago, they've got a scheme that the UK's quite keen on. And then, yeah, when I was talking to the Prime Minister,

Ian... Pat McFadden, the now working pension secretary on a trip to Estonia a few weeks ago. They've got a scheme that the UK is quite keen on.

And then, yeah, when I was talking to the Prime Minister in Glasgow a few weeks ago,

and I was primarily talking to him about Angela Rain, although that's not why we'd been invited along.

I asked him about digital ID, and he really lent into it and made a really passionate case for it.

And of course, did that seem much of the light of day on the day? No, because we were talking about

Angela Rainer. And then here they are with the confirmation and crucially the detail of it being

compulsory. That's the big additional detail that we didn't have a couple of weeks ago.

And Vicki, this is being sold as not a way of keeping tabs on British citizens or the government kind of getting into our lives.

It's being sold as a measure to tackle migration.

Yeah, partly. And they're also talking about it actually reducing hassle in your life.

So it's both actually because everyone who's talked about it this week has said it's not

going to be something that completely solves the migration issue.

And particularly about that, of course, it's about working in the black economy.

That's what they're really talking about is stopping people who aren't supposed to be

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