A "toxic Tory decade of incompetence and indifference” has thrown the Passport Office into disarray, Labour claimed as ministers were told to apologise to the public for lengthy delays.
Latest Government figures show more than 35,000 people have been left waiting longer than 10 weeks to receive a new passport.
But the figures only cover the first three months of the year – January to the end of March 2022 – meaning many more UK travellers will have joined their ranks since then.
