The dark blue UK passport could return after Brexit - but it will cost £490m

By The Newsroom
Published 2nd Apr 2017, 10:40 BST
Updated 8th Apr 2017, 22:28 BST
The old dark blue passportThe old dark blue passport
The old dark blue passport
The UK passport could turn dark blue again after Brexit under a £490 million contract to redesign and produce a new version of the document.

The passport is routinely redesigned every five years and Eurosceptics view the new contract as a way to ditch the EU burgundy cover in favour of a return to the colour of the past.

The current contract expires in 2019, the year the UK is set to leave the European Union after Theresa May began the formal two-year withdrawal process last week.

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