{"id":80564,"date":"2020-02-23T09:45:18","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T09:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=80564"},"modified":"2020-02-23T09:45:19","modified_gmt":"2020-02-23T09:45:19","slug":"united-kingdom-to-start-issuing-blue-passports-post-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/united-kingdom-to-start-issuing-blue-passports-post-brexit\/","title":{"rendered":"United Kingdom to start issuing blue passports post-Brexit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Britain will issue blue passports next month for the first time in almost three decades following its departure from the European Union, the government said on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new blue cover passports will be issued and delivered early next month, said the interior ministry, replacing the burgundy passports that were introduced in 1988.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLeaving the European Union gave us a unique opportunity to restore our national identity and forge a new path in the world,\u201d said interior minister Priti Patel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBy 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,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The issue became another battleground of the Brexit war after the government announced in 2017 it would return to traditional blue passports \u201cto restore national identity\u201d.The loss of the blue cover was much lamented by some when it was replaced with a burgundy one in line with most other EU nations.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain will issue blue passports next month for the first time in almost three decades following its departure from the European Union, the government said on Saturday. The new blue cover passports will be issued and delivered early next month, said the interior ministry, replacing the burgundy passports that were introduced in 1988. \u201cLeaving the [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80565,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80566,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80564\/revisions\/80566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}