Sir Keir Starmer was accused of failing to slash passport queues abroad as it emerged that nine in ten EU airports still bar Brits from using e-gates.
Despite the Prime Minister boasting earlier this year that his EU reset deal would see Britons 'sailing through the e-gates', The Mail on Sunday can reveal that just 11 per cent of European airports allow British holidaymakers to use them.
Starmer hailed the e-gates change as one of the key elements of his deal with Brussels in May, stating at the time that 'instead of waiting in long queues at passport control, Brits travelling to Europe will now be able to use e-gates'.
But just 45 out of the 400 commercial airports in the EU had given e-gate access to British travellers by the end of July, according to figures obtained via a Freedom of Information (FoI) request to the Cabinet Office, seen by The MoS.
James MacCleary MP, the Liberal Democrat spokesman for Europe who filed the request, said: 'The Government presented their e-gate announcement as a done deal, but Starmer is yet to deliver on his promise. Thousands of British holidaymakers faced queues and delays due to those same technological barriers this summer.
