There are long queues and 'scenes of utter chaos' at the UK border due to a nationwide problem with e-gates at ports and airports.
Failure of e-gates at the UK's airports"poses a danger to national security", a travel expert has told Sky News.at the UK border due to a nationwide problem with e-gates at ports and airports.
The technical issue caused them to stop working late on Friday, meaning all passengers have to be processed through staffed airport desks. Paul Charles, a travel expert at the PC Agency, told Sky News that underinvestment in the UK's transport infrastructure has left these systems"hanging by a thread".
"This is the busiest weekend since the end of 2019 for the number of arrivals and departures from the UK," he said.Image:With the e-gates down, it means the manual checking of passports by UK Border Force staff. These staff, Mr Charles added, will be under pressure to work"very quickly" to try to keep the queues down -"so they may miss things that they would, in other normal circumstances, find".
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