John Bright: Passport quiz is just not cricket!

Jun 29 2009 | John Bright

Returning from a holiday in Portugal’s Algarve with his wife this month, Ross Reyburn spent some 30 minutes being quizzed by customs officials at Birmingham Airport, unhappy as his Canadian passport offered no evidence he was entitled to live in Britain. Born in Toronto, he was ‘smuggled’ into the country in 1950 aged four when his late father, writer Wallace Reyburn, author of Flushed with Pride – The Story of Thomas Crapper, became London columnist for the Toronto Telegram newspaper. Read