LONDON — Britain’s journey into Brexit has been a little bumpy. Banking jobs are in peril, and doctors and nurses are heading back across the English Channel. Employers are struggling to find workers. Negotiations with the European Union on the British departure have been fractious.

On Friday, the British government found something to celebrate: The Home Office said that the color of the country’s passports would revert from burgundy, favored by most European Union member states, to the blue that once marked British travel documents.

The new passports, as described by the Home Office, would be both practical and a source of pride. They are meant to “symbolize our national identity,” to say nothing of providing Britons with “one of the most secure travel documents in the world.”