The family of illegal immigrants busted last year for running a fake passport factory in London have been jailed.

The police haul included 60 blank Spanish passports, 150 Portuguese passports, 32 Italian passports, 200 blank Portuguese identity cards, 150 UK national insurance cards, £1,400 in cash and a variety of forged utility bills.

The ringleader received a five-and-a-half year sentence, while the rest of the family face between one and three years behind bars.

The government do insist that ID cards will be secure, but I insist that anything man-made can be forged. If a family can forge a variety of EU identity documents using just a couple of computers, scanners printers and an embossing press – it will not take much more to forge an ID card, no matter how clever the technology.