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Montgomery Toms Told Europe the Truth About Digital ID, and Britain Should Listen By Dan | Restore Britain Some speeches go round in circles. This one cut straight to the point. On 4 March 2026, a young British campaigner called Montgomery Toms sat on a digital ID panel at the European Parliament, hosted by MEP Christine Anderson. In about three minutes he said what many politicians twice his age won't say: digital ID never went away. It just changed doors. He opened with a line every young person in this country should hear: "If there's a million people telling you you have to say yes, you are very capable of saying no." The front door shut, the back door opened The record backs him up. In September 2025, Keir Starmer announced a national digital ID that would be compulsory for anyone who wanted to work. Almost three million people signed the petition against it. By January 2026 the government had dropped the compulsory part, and in July 2026 the Burnham government cancelled the national programme altogether. Victory? Not quite, and that was Montgomery's point. The government's own response to Parliament says the cancellation "does not end the government's wider work on digital identity." GOV.UK One Login, the GOV.UK Wallet, and digital driving licences and veteran cards are all still being built. His examples stand up Company directors are the first example. Since 18 November 2025, the law has required every company director to verify their identity with Companies House. The free route is GOV.UK One Login, and the only alternative is paying an approved agent to do it for you. If you don't verify, it is an offence to act as a director. So if you want to run a limited company in Britain, you now have to prove your identity to the state first. Children are the second. The Children's Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026 makes councils keep a register of every child who isn't in school. It records the child's name, date of birth, address and parents, and it lets the council ask to come inside the family home. If parents refuse, the council must count that refusal against them. The same Act lets ministers set a "single unique identifier" for every child, shared across schools, social services and police. In October 2026 the government confirmed that pilots are underway and that the NHS number is set to become that identifier. Montgomery said, "Get them young, right?" It's hard to argue with him. The third is the state watching its own people. In 2023, campaign group Big Brother Watch reported that units including the Army's 77th Brigade monitored the social media posts of British citizens who criticised lockdown policy. Montgomery's question is simple: if they did that without a digital ID, what would they do with one? Why it matters In my view, he is right that Covid was the rehearsal. Vaccine passports showed how fast "voluntary" becomes "expected", and how fast "expected" becomes "no entry without it". He is also right that mass refusal works. Britain's prisons are already full, and a government can't jail a whole country that says no. Montgomery knows what that costs. He told the panel he refused masks, tests and the jabs, and paid for it by being "massively isolated" as a young man. He didn't fold, and now he spends his time debating other young people on digital ID and free speech. His closing words should be printed on every school wall: "Two plus two equals four, not five." Vote Restore Britain This is why I back Restore Britain. Labour scrapped the headline and kept the machinery. Restore Britain will scrap the machinery too: no digital ID through the front door, the back door, or a child's NHS number. If a young man can stand up in the European Parliament and say it plainly, the least the rest of us can do is vote for the party that will. Vote Restore Britain.