Given how many big organisations have had data stolen in the past few months, and it appears at least one of them paid £20m ransom to the crooks, and the data was still leaked anyway, can you imagine a civil service department keeping the data remotely safe? Or even store it exclusively in sovereign territory?
No bloody chance. Not a hope in hell.
Silly me, I thought to legally get a job in the UK you had to prove you were allowed to work here. How is this ill considered idea any different?
There is a very simple way to stoop illegal small boat crossings, and the Royal Navy could use the target practice. That would be a proper deterent, though I accept would have to be done 9 miles out from France....