The incoming Director General for Civil Aviation (UK),reporting directly to the Transport Secretary,is,for the first time, an Aviation bod (Peter Griffiths, well known to many in the LoCo sector). Hopefully, he can use some clout to sort out this pitiful mess.
Perhaps it needs a few occurrences of crews refusing to operate due to the 'stress' imposed by Airport security to make the Airlines (I say again, the Customers) actively chase this subject as their OTP begins to suffer...