Blow for Brits as the cost of a UK passport to rise again – with holidaymakers braced for mad rush for applications

PASSPORTS are getting more expensive in a fresh blow to holidaymakers, The Sun can reveal.

Ministers are understood to have signed off a 7 per cent rise in the price of renewing the travel document.

That would see the cost of applying for a new passport online increase by £6 from £88.50 to £94.50 for adults, and from £69 to £74 for kids.

Postal applications will be hiked from £100 to £107 for adults and from £69 to £74 for under-16s.