British cultural icons such as William Shakespeare, Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, and Anish Kapoor, as well as landmark structures like the Angel of the North and the Titanic Belfastwill be featured on the New British passport.
The latest design of the UK passport was unveiled today by the Minister for Immigration, James Brokenshire, at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre.
A new design is launched every five years and the theme for the latest version is ‘Creative United Kingdom’.
Representing all 4 countries in the UK, the new designs also incorporate the latest in printing technology to ensure the security of the document remains the top priority.
The latest passport is the most secure ever produced in the UK and contains brand new security features to make it more difficult than ever for fraudsters to forge copies, these include:
advances in the use of security printing using UV and infrared light, inks and watermarks and the use of single sheet of paper for the personal details page through to the page adjoined to the back cover to prevent the passport from being tampered with.
The new passport will be rolled out in a phased approach with the first due to be in circulation from December 2015.
