Labour's beloved ID cards are to be scrapped, thank heavens, as is the third runway for Heathrow airport.

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Instead he said people had "lost a sense of who we were and what we believed" - saying Labour had become associated with ID cards and defending bankers' bonuses.

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The Lib Dems, along with some Labour MPs, are strongly opposed to ID cards.

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Asked about whether Trident nuclear deterrent scheme and plans for ID cards could be cancelled as part of Labour's savings programme, Lord Mandelson said nothing had been decided or ruled out.

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Well it seems the idea of a tax on bankers' bonuses, like the one Labour imposed, is still very much on the cards if the banks are not seen to show restraint.

BBC: Bankers' bonuses: New tax still on the cards

Labour's Jack Dromey, whose wife Harriet Harman is acting Labour leader, said his constituents were more concerned about their jobs than ID cards.

BBC: Blunkett admits that ID cards project is 'dead'

Does the non-stop flogging of scratch cards, duty-free goods, scorching coffee and rubber paninis initiate premature labour in exasperated mums-to-be?

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Earlier, Labour peer and former health minister Lord Warner accused ministers of "throwing all the organisational cards up in the air" by getting rid of SHAs before financial challenges to NHS had been dealt with.

BBC: Labour loses bid to delay SHA abolition