Fallback Plan Is News Today

hello, im lucy grey. a home office source has told the bbc that e—gates are starting to work again at uk airports. a nationwide issue, which started on friday evening, has resulted in long queues at passport control. the bbc understands the gates will be switched on in the busiest spots first and that the it issue has now been resolved. graham satchell has the latest. gatwick airport, described by one passenger today as an utterjoke. this is manchester, where again there were huge qu...

About what those systems might be. but clearly security at the border is paramount and we cannot let anybody through the border unless they have been properly checked, even though vilhete 99.99% is perfectly genuine, we cant afford to take that risk. the alternative fallback strategy is to push everybody through the manual controls where officers have the systems to do the manual checks there. but we do rely very much on these e—gates, critically at dizzee holiday paydays like this. i these e-...