Now the Passport Office backlog hits 500,000: Summer of chaos looms for British travellers as staff complain their systems are ‘not fit for purpose’ and can’t deal with a mounting list of applications
- Passport Office staff battle a backlog of half a million applications and counting
- Delays could cost Britons £1 billion in cancelled holidays and travel this summer
- Half of all applications to be processed on time as systems not ‘fit for purpose’
- Boris Johnson previously vowed to ‘privatise the a***’ out of the Passport Office’
- A spokesperson said 250,000 passport applications were completed each week
Passport Office staff have privately complained their systems are not ‘fit for purpose’ as the beleaguered Government agency battles a backlog of half a million applications.
Thousands of summer holidays could…
