Security lapses that allowed around half-a-million people into the UK without proper checks went far further than ministers realised, a hard-hitting new report has revealed.
The UK Border Agency (UKBA) is to be split in two after Theresa May, the Home Secretary, announced that full security was suspended on hundreds of occasions over the last four years.
Glasgow and Edinburgh were named among 10 airports and ports which allowed thousands of people into the country last year after officials turned off a facility that reads the biometric chips in passports.
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