Immigration minister Brandon Lewis has confirmed the UK will change to an ‘iconic’ blue and gold design post-Brexit in a bid to regain part of its national identity.
The new passports, which will no longer include the European Union insignia, will replace the burgundy-cover UK passports.
The change will take effect from October 2019 for those renewing or applying for a passport and Home Affairs vice-president Richard Graham said it would be ‘difficult for the islands to go too far out of line with what the UK decides’.
‘The Home Affairs committee have an agenda vis-a-vis the possible outfall of Brexit, part and parcel of that is the consideration of British passports and the island variant,’ he said.
‘There is a recognition that, depending on what the outcome of Brexit is, there could be an effect on the British passport we are accustomed to and the Crown Dependencies will inevitably have to follow what the UK does to a certain extent.’
Full story in Saturday's Guernsey Press
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