 Proposals to reintroduce them have been raised on a number of occasions since then.During the early 2000s and 2010s, organisations such as No2ID campaigned against these proposals.Identity cards were re-introduced in Britain in the Identity Cards Act 2006, enacted during Tony Blair's Labour government, as part of a state-approved counterterrorism initiative by – then-Prime Minister – Tony Blair, in response to the 11 September 2001 attacks and 7/7 bombings.