Can British citizens travel to the UK using a non-British passport?

[GaryC]

Sorry but that doesn't make sense. If you are a British and EU citizen, then settled status is of no relevance and why, if you are UK resident would you not have a UK passport as a dual citizen? If correct it seems somewhat niche!

[Robinson100]

I think a large part of the problem here is that dual citizens have previously been able to travel to the UK and back from wherever in Europe on their "foreign" passport or ID card.
And with a UK passport costing around £100, many have chosen, over the years to only use their resident card for travel within Europe and to visit the UK.
Now the requirement to present a British passport or a "Certificate of Entitlement" which costs £589 is making things a little more complicated.

[Feierabend]

Sorry but that doesn't make sense. If you are a British and EU citizen, then settled status is of no relevance and why, if you are UK resident would you not have a UK passport as a dual citizen? If correct it seems somewhat niche!

That's the problem with these changes, everything is now niche and you have to really check your own circumstances. From Gov UK:

"Check if you can travel with a national identity card
You can only use a national identity card from an EU country, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein to enter the UK if one or more of the following is true:

you have settled or pre-settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme, or Jersey, Guernsey or the Isle of Man’s settlement schemes
you have an EU Settlement Scheme family permit, or the equivalent from Jersey, Guernsey or the Isle of Man
you have a Frontier Worker permit
you are an S2 Healthcare Visitor
you are an EU, EEA or Swiss national aged 18 or under travelling as part of a French school group using a France-UK school trip travel information form
......."

[Feierabend]

Also from GovUK:
"(If)You’re a British citizen
You can enter the UK with one of the following identity documents:

a valid UK passport
a Gibraltar identity card
a certificate of entitlement that shows you have the right of abode in the UK
If you have dual citizenship with the UK and another country, you might also be able to travel with an expired UK passport or emergency travel document."

But hey, note the word "might."
No wonder people are confused, and how accurate are the guidelines given to the people who have to decide whether you can board the plane/ship, because it seems the buck has been passed down to them.

[Fraufruit]

Also the word OR between UK Passport and emergency travel document. It looks like one OR the other but is it really?

[kiplette]

Well yes, there is that too.

It's just more mud in the water, really, because of the 'might' - who is really going to leave their travel plans on the whim of a Ryanair dude? Airline employees are notoriously fickle and this kind of extra power isn't helpful to an individual traveller at all...