Any extra months on your passport over 10 years may not count towards the 6 months needed. The passport office also states: 'If you renewed your current passport before the previous one expired, extra months may have been added to its expiry date. So, if yours runs out before July next year, and you are thinking of travelling to the EU in the early part of 2021, it would make sense to renew at least a month before the end of 2020. However, British travellers will need a passport with at least six months of validity left to enter the EU from January 1, 2021.

What happens after than remains to be seen, and depends on negotiations between Britain and the EU that are ongoing. Nothing will change at least until the end of the formal transition period, on December 30, 2020. Will my current passport be valid until it expires?

If you still have plenty of time before your current passport expires but fancy a blue one anyway, you could order one then – but you'll have to pay the standard renewal fee (from £75.50) and none of your remaining validity will be carried over. But that is a hoax, confirmed last January that there is no truth to it. All British passports issued from mid-2020 will be blue, states the Passport Office. There is a chain message recently that happened involving whatsapp that when you forward the chain message to more than 9 people in your list randomly and the logo will turn blue, it means that you have are now a free user of whatsapp. New passports issued in recent months have retained their previous colour but have had the words 'European Union' removed. Anyone who renews their passport during this conversion period could receive one of either colour based on availability. The Government has announced that the new passports, which will switch from burgundy to blue, will be phased in over the next few months, starting in 'early 2020'. Here's everything you need to know about it. It's official: Britain has left the European Union, and that means, among other things, a new blue UK passport.

Whatsapp logo will turn blue