More than 50,000 Brits have been waiting more than 10 weeks for their passport application to be processed - as service chiefs are accused of "failing miserably".
Despite a surge in applications being predicted a year ago, MPs heard there were around 550,000 applications being processed at the end of last month.
Of these around 10% of applicants had waited more than 10 weeks, a Passport Office chief admitted this morning.
