UK to Issue Updated Post-Brexit Passports From March
The colour of passports will change to blue.
Starting in March 2020, the UK will begin issuing updated blue passports following the country's exit from the European Union. This is reported by Sky News.
The UK Home Office announced that the first passports in the new style, which the government described as a return to the “iconic” design, will be produced and delivered in early March.
The Home Secretary said: “Leaving the EU gave us a unique opportunity to restore our national identity and chart a new path in the world. By returning to the iconic blue and gold design, the British passport will once again be woven into our national identity, and I can’t wait to travel with it”.
The introduction of blue passports will be phased in, but from mid-2020 all new passports will be blue and will replace their burgundy predecessors. Former British prime minister Theresa May announced the return of blue passports back in December 2017, as she planned the UK's imminent exit from the EU.
It later emerged that the Franco-Dutch company was set to receive a contract worth $336.8 million to produce the new passports.
The Brexit process began in 2016, when 52% of the country's residents supported the decision in a referendum. Officially, the UK left the European Union on 31 January at 23:00 local time.
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