Wednesday, August 03, 2005

Passport checks key to UK security / The Guardian, 2 Aug 2005

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1540610,00.html
Alan Travis
"The reintroduction of passport checks on everybody leaving Britain in the immediate aftermath of the London bombings marks the future as far as the government's hopes of improving the security of Britain's borders are concerned.
Ministers believe that if they could track the movement of everybody in and out of the country they could dispel the myth that Britain's borders are an open door that leave the country a 'soft touch' to illegal migrants."