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Britain's Blue Passport Fanatics Have a Valuable New Ally
De La Rue is playing a strange game for a global company.
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British business has despaired at times about the U.K.'s shambolic preparations for leaving the EU. But one thing Theresa May's government has decided is who will produce the country's new passports from next year (the kind of thing that's important to rightwing tabloids). It probably wishes it hadn't.
On Tuesday, De La Rue Plc said it may appeal against the provisional award of a mooted 490 million pound ($689 million) contract to -- cue Daily Mail horror -- "a part state-owned Franco-Dutch company," Gemalto NV.