LONDON ? Britain's former border force chief, who stepped down amid a scandal about border controls, says he did not overstep his authority in relaxing some passport checks during the peak summer travel season.
Brodie Clark is accused of going beyond orders and dropping some border controls to avoid overcrowding at airports and ports that would give tourists a bad impression of Britain.
Giving evidence to lawmakers, Clark said Tuesday that Home Secretary Theresa May had signed off the changes he authorized, and said he gave officials weekly briefings on the changes.
"I am no rogue officer, nothing can be further from the truth," he said, denying May's version of events given last week.
Asked why his testimony contradicted May's, he said: "I just do not understand why she had said that."
Clark has said that May wrongly accused him and gave an inaccurate description of events. He is planning to sue the government, which he says forced him out of his job.
The scandal has put May, one of the government's most senior officials, under pressure to reveal the extent to which she was responsible for the lapses in border security.
She told Parliament last week it was impossible to determine how many people entered the country without sufficient identity checks.
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