One principle of good regulation is that it should prevent activity you don’t want while not impeding activity that you do want.
https://twitter.com/GeorgePeretzQC/status/1400905976853762050
Regulation that stops EU school parties visiting the U.K. (which we presumably do want) while not in practice preventing holders of EU ID cards who want to dodge the passport requirement from slipping in via Ireland does not, in any obvious way, pass that test.
NB another example of why immigration control should be taken away from the Home Office and given to an economic department (my vote would be a Department of Employment (and Tourism)).
NB2 If requiring passports is supposed to demonstrate that we are no longer in the EU, then it’s worth looking at 🇨🇦 and 🇺🇸, which cheerfully accept driving licences etc as sufficient for citizens from one to visit the other.
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