The exact wording of the statement is for the council to: “. . . .refuse to co-operate with any plans to promote the card scheme, including refusal to allow any council premises to be used for promotional events or meetings and refusal to use any of the city council’s communications channels to provide information about the scheme unless required to do so by law.”
It also pledges to work with the anti-ID card group, NO2ID.
The organisation’s north of England co-ordinator, James Elsdon-Baker, said: “This is Liverpool using its democratic voice and saying to Whitehall it must move with the times to win back public support.
“The people of Manchester have said very clearly that they do not want this scheme.
“A recent poll showed the vast majority of people there will not take up the card and there’s no way the people of Liverpool will be conned into it either.”
