[matteason]

They're having another crack at it with GOV.UK One Login: https://www.sign-in.service.gov.uk/

I've participated in some user research with the team building it and I've also designed GOV.UK services pre-One Login that needed to verify people's identity. It's obviously a very difficult problem to solve when there's no universal central ID database. The people working on it are definitely cognizant of the failure of Verify and they're keen not to repeat it.

I do hate the 'GOV.UK One Login' name though. It's previously been called 'GOV.UK Account' and 'GOV.UK Sign In', I'm not sure what was wrong with either of those.

[robertlagrant]

Renaming stuff is the easiest job, so it gets done first :) Thanks for your work on gov.uk. I interviewed (a five hour interview!) with GDS about 6 years ago, and it was a nice place. I declined the offer in the end, but it always looked very promising.