The UK's Home Office has advised that new blue passport design will start being issued from March 2020.Britons will be able to travel with a blue passport when the traditional colour returns for the first time in almost 30 years.The distinctive blue cover will be re-introduced now the UK has left the EU, and will replace burgundy passports which were gradually rolled out from 1988.The first new passports will be issued and delivered early next month. Full introduction will be phased in and from mid-2020 all new passports will be blue.The colour is not the only change, in a first for the British passport, the back cover will also carry its own symbolic design – the floral emblems of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales embossed.The blue passport will also be the greenest British passport ever. The carbon footprint produced through manufacture will be reduced to net zero, through projects such as planting trees.Home Secretary Priti Patel said:"Leaving the European Union gave us a unique opportunity to restore our national identity and forge a new path in the world"."By returning to the iconic blue and gold design, the British passport will once again be entwined with our national identity and I cannot wait to travel on one".
UK’s blue passport to be rolled out in March
