The King’s coat of arms will be on the front of all new passports from December, the Home Office has announced.

The inside pages have also been changed as part of the revamp and will feature images of natural landscapes from across the four nations.

They will include Ben Nevis, the Lake District, Three Cliffs Bay and the Giant’s Causeway.

The Home Office said the new passport, the first wholly new design in five years, will be the ‘most secure passport ever produced’.

It will include the latest anti-forgery technology, including new holographic and translucent features.

These new features will make passports easier to verify and ‘even harder to forge or tamper with’, the Home Office said. Migration and citizenship minister Mike Tapp said: ‘The introduction of His Majesty’s arms, iconi

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