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Dear friends, 

Today, you should feel vindicated. 

We can finally reveal that ministers *knew* controversial Covid passes would have a "small, and probably unmeasurable" impact on public health when they imposed them. 

Despite this, Covid passes have been made mandatory - in Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Wales, where we are bringing a legal challenge to end the scheme.

Of course, we have already defeated Covid IDs in England.

Legal documents reveal the Welsh Government always expected the controversial Covid pass scheme to have a “small, and probably unmeasurable” impact on public health, following expert advice.

The truth is out

We don't think mandatory Covid pass schemes can survive this. 

These revelations could have a huge impact across the UK, and even overseas.

The evidence is clear - a digital ID system that doesn't tell you if you've got Covid or not does not make us more safe - it only makes us less free. 

The mandatory Covid pass scheme is due to be reviewed by Welsh Ministers tomorrow on Thursday 10th February. We are urging Welsh Ministers to scrap the scheme immediately. 

If not, we'll see them in court. 

Secrecy...

Welsh Ministers have refused to agree to our repeated requests to publish their legal correspondence. But tonight, we can finally publish our own legal grounds which quote from Welsh Ministers’ correspondence to us. In this way, we can reveal that Ministers’ expectations were that Covid passes “might” make “only a small, and probably unmeasurable” impact on Covid cases. 

This frank admission and inability to provide any evidence showing a certain positive impact of Covid passes came despite politicians provoking deep social division over the ID scheme, accusing opponents of being "grossly irresponsible" and even "putting lives at risk".  

However, if Covid passes are having no noticeable effect on public health in Wales, as appears to be the case from our legal correspondence, the question begs how the mandatory scheme can be lawful.

To be clear: our legal correspondence has indicated that there was no evidence or clinical advice before ministers establishing that the Covid pass scheme would make any significant contribution to reducing Covid-19 transmission and infection; that such a significant contribution was likely; or even that there was a realistic possibility of such a significant contribution. In fact, the Welsh government indicated that Ministers were positively advised that it was unlikely that a Covid pass scheme would reduce Covid cases.

We are only able to uncover this vital information thanks to your incredible support.

Mandatory Covid IDs are a totally unevidenced and unjustified intrusion of medical privacy, an erosion of freedom and a threat to equality. We will not stop fighting Covid passes until all the mandatory schemes are dropped.

We are now seeking a legal order quashing mandatory Covid IDs in Wales. This is a test case - we haven't taken our eye off the rest of the UK.

PLEASE share this vital information far and wide. And please, help us continue our vital work - become a Big Brother Watch supporter today. We can't do it without you. 

Thank you, 

Silkie