We went out into the streets of Manchester to ask people on the streets what they thought about having to give fingerprint scans when travelling to European Union countries as a result of post-Brexit travel rules changing.
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00:00Hello and welcome to Manchester World, my name is Theo Cousinbetts and this is People
00:03on the Street. Today I'm going out into the city of Manchester to ask people about travel
00:07in the EU and that's because as of October this year, people travelling into the EU from
00:12the UK are now going to be expected to show a photo ID as well as scanning their fingerprints
00:16at the airport and we want to know if this is going to put people off travelling or is
00:19it just another part of a stressful process.
00:21I'm old enough to say I've owned Romain, so I didn't know about that and it's just
00:26a bit annoying but, again, we have to queue up in different ways in terms of passports
00:32so it's just kind of something we have to deal with.
00:35I think it's just going to be another slot in the machine of a stressful process.
00:39I mean, yeah, airports and travel can be quite stressful just in itself, it's just the
00:43luck, it's just the card we've been drawn and you've just got to roll with it.
00:47I think I get why people would be put off and I wasn't actually aware of it, trying to get
00:52an Irish passport at the moment so I could bypass that but I get why it would deter people.