Cabinet Split Over ID Cards

The Guardian carries a report this morning about the cabinet being split over the introduction of ID Cards. No need to explain again where I stand on the issue.
I don’t know quite what to make of all this. Gordon Brown doesn’t want the treasury to pay for it, but the alternative seems to be to get every member of the public pay £40 for the privilege.
The there’s the suggestion that in the all new™ Labour government, the cabinet are going to get more say about policy – so not just TB and his mates then? Could this be the first piece of policy to go by the wayside as a result of this new found openness?