Passport control?

It appears £250 is all you need if you want to get into the UK.

A BBC journalist for the BBC’s Panorama has managed to enter the UK twice on fake and stolen passports.

The first of which the reporter managed to get in London by responding to an advert in a Russian language newspaper.

Something like this can’t even be prevented by the introduction of new biometric passports. That will make it much more difficult for UK passports to be faked, but unless they are introduced in every country, nothing much will change.

People wanting to enter the UK illegally will get hold of a passport from another country and just stroll right in, it appears.

Panorama: My Fake Passports and Me will be broadcast on Monday, 4 December, 2006 at 2100 GMT on BBC One.