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I suppose airports are free to decide who gets to use the electronic gates, no? Or is that some kind of discrimination thing? However, they obviously have a big interest in making the whole thing as quick as possible so they can avoid queues and improve throughput.
In any case, the pic looks like they just preemptively added the UK flag to the list of 'third countries' that need to be mentioned specifically because they're not in the EU (such as Switzerland), but they're actually still letting them use the egates. For now.
I'm not sure either tbh, could be fake news. Independent says this :