Des Browne Quotes
The ability to send applications by post allows fraudsters to apply in false or stolen identities without fear of arrest and to make multiple applications in the hope of getting one through. It allows the possibility of passports being applied for with the photographs of people who are outside the U.K. and seeking to enter illegally.
Browne, Des. "Written Ministerial Statement: Passport Security." Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). House of Commons, 12 Jan. 2004.
Lenin and his wife were wanted in Russia and carried on their revolutionary activities from England:
Desmond Henry Browne, Baron Browne of Ladyton, PC is a Scottish Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Kilmarnock and Loudoun from 1997 to 2010. He was a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, until the latter moved him from both Defence and Scottish Secretary in 2008.