The Prime Minister is expected to give intelligence agencies the power to vet airline passenger lists in an effort to stop jihadis from entering Britain.
The new measures, to be announced in the House of Commons later today, would force all airlines flying into the UK to provide much more information about passengers than at present.
If the name of any traveller appears on a ‘watchlist’, the airline will have to prevent them from boarding or the plane may not be allowed to land in the UK.
At present, some airlines do not release their passenger lists until 30 minutes before flights leave. David Cameron wants countries to collect and share airline passenger name records in real time, but this could be challenged by MEPs concerned about civil liberties.
Cameron and deputy prime minster Nick Clegg are understood to be thrashing out the final details of new anti-terror measures to be announced later this afternoon following a new warning by the king of Saudi Arabia that terror groups could attack the west ‘within a month’.
