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| Home Office has no immediate plans to change EU passports Home Office has no immediate plans to change EU passports | |
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| It was one of the more persistent if minor refrains from the pro-leave camp in the run-up to the EU referendum: an end to the burgundy hegemony of the standard EU passport. | It was one of the more persistent if minor refrains from the pro-leave camp in the run-up to the EU referendum: an end to the burgundy hegemony of the standard EU passport. |
| But it seems traditionalists are not – at least for now – going to get their old-style British passports back. | But it seems traditionalists are not – at least for now – going to get their old-style British passports back. |
| The news – which will come as a particular disappointment to Nigel Farage, who disapprovingly brandished his EU passport on a more or less hourly basis during the referendum campaign – has come in a written answer from the Home Office. | The news – which will come as a particular disappointment to Nigel Farage, who disapprovingly brandished his EU passport on a more or less hourly basis during the referendum campaign – has come in a written answer from the Home Office. |
| Michael Fabricant, the pro-Brexit Conservative MP for Lichfield, asked Amber Rudd, the new home secretary, in a written parliamentary question, whether she would “take steps to introduce a new passport with a navy blue cover for the UK following the exit of the UK from the EU”. | Michael Fabricant, the pro-Brexit Conservative MP for Lichfield, asked Amber Rudd, the new home secretary, in a written parliamentary question, whether she would “take steps to introduce a new passport with a navy blue cover for the UK following the exit of the UK from the EU”. |
| Rudd replied: “There are no immediate plans for changes to the format or colour of the UK passport. Parliament will be informed of any changes to the passport following UK withdrawal from the European Union.” | Rudd replied: “There are no immediate plans for changes to the format or colour of the UK passport. Parliament will be informed of any changes to the passport following UK withdrawal from the European Union.” |
| A Home Office spokeswoman said she was not able to expand on the answer or say whether the situation might change when withdrawal from the EU was finalised. | A Home Office spokeswoman said she was not able to expand on the answer or say whether the situation might change when withdrawal from the EU was finalised. |
| The larger, old-style passports, commonly referred to as blue even though the cover was black, were replaced from 1988 by the smaller, machine-readable type, of a standard colour among EU nations, but for British nationals with the royal coat of arms and UK name on the front. | The larger, old-style passports, commonly referred to as blue even though the cover was black, were replaced from 1988 by the smaller, machine-readable type, of a standard colour among EU nations, but for British nationals with the royal coat of arms and UK name on the front. |