Paddington Bear given official UK passport by Home Office for new movie

PADDINGTON Bear was provided with an authoritative UK passport for filming of a caller movie.

Bosses had appealed to the Home Office for support to make a replica, but were shocked erstwhile the authorities section alternatively responded with a ineligible document.

Co-producer of Paddington successful Peru, Rob Silva, told Radio Times: “We wrote to the Home Office, asking if we could get a replica, and they really issued Paddington with an authoritative passport – there’s lone 1 of these.

“You wouldn’t deliberation the Home Office would person a consciousness of humour, but nether authoritative observations, they’ve conscionable listed him arsenic Bear.”

The movie follows the Marmalade-loving bear, brought to beingness done animation and voiced by Ben Whishaw, arsenic helium travels overseas to sojourn Aunt Lucy successful his homeland.

It follows the container bureau occurrence of Paddington and Paddington 2.

But campaigners are not convinced the Home Office’s motion is the champion usage of hard-pressed resources.

William Yarwood, media run manager astatine the TaxPayers’ Alliance said: “Taxpayers volition beryllium bewildered that a fictional carnivore received a passport.

“While Home Office mandarins mightiness find this amusing, ordinary Brits who are suffering nether the department’s inability to power immigration oregon bring down transgression won’t.

“Civil servants request to beryllium snapped backmost into reality.”