So Called Iconic New "Blue" British Passport blue Post-Brexit Made By a French-Dutch company in Poland [CNN]
UK unveils 'iconic,' blue post-Brexit passports, made by a French-Dutch company in Poland [CNN]
Prime Minister Boris Johnson had previously praised the color change as a "wonderful thing" and bemoaned his "sense of personal loss and outrage" when the UK's previous blue passports were "taken away" in 1988.
What neither mentioned, however, was that the new passports are being made by the Franco-Dutch firm Gemalto at its site in Tczew, Poland.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/22/uk/brexit-blue-passports-gbr-scli-intl/index.html
Brexiteers have frequently painted the move as a way to reclaim British identity and freedom from the EU, while Remainers saw it as a petty and inward-looking obsession.
The country prints new passports every few years, and the contract to make the new blue items was won by Gemalto in 2018 after it beat out British company De La Rue. At the time, Conservative MP Priti Patel called the decision "disgraceful" and "perverse."
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