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Kiro Evans & Louie Smith

First blue Brexit passports issued as stock of EU burgundy covers run out

The first Brits have started receiving Brexit blue passports.

The government announced last week that stocks of the burgundy passports had finally run out.

Danielle Hugman's one-year-old daughter Willow-Rose is among the first people in the country to receive one.

But the 25-year-old can't remember how she voted in the 2016 referendum and says she has "no idea what Brexit is about".

The stay at home mum added: "I'm not a very political person so to me it doesn't matter what went on. 

Willow-Rose clasps her post-Brexit passport (Danielle Hugman / SWNS)

"I do not believe anything politicians say so it's not worth listening to them." 

Danielle applied for Willow-Rose's passport in February and it arrived at her home in Lowerstock, Suffolk, on Thursday.

This followed a government announcement last Tuesday that the blue passports were being issued.

The new passport is a deep blue colour (UK HOME OFFICE/AFP via Getty Ima)

The colour was first used in 1921 but later changed to burgundy after the UK joined the EU.

Mum-of-three Danielle ordered passports for two of her children, Willow-Rose and Arabella.

Arabella's arrived first - and it bore the old burgundy colour - but when Willow-Rose's arrived three days later, it was in the Brexit blue.

"I think it looks smarter," she said.

"The picture page is now hard plastic so it is a little bit weirder."

Danielle and husband Dominic, 31, were hoping to put the passports to use after booking a trip to Turkey in May.

But they now fear their holiday plans could be derailed by the coronavirus outbreak.

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