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Encyclopedia > Britishness test

The Britishness test is a hypothetical list of questions that will be posed to applicants for British citizenship. The concept was recommended in 2003 by Sir Bernard Crick's advisory group on citizenship, and endorsed by the United Kingdom Home Secretary David Blunkett. Applicants will have to demonstrate a certain level of fluency in English, Welsh, or Scottish Gaelic.


According to The Guardian [1] (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1035146,00.html), typical citizenship test questions (proposed) may look like:

  • Who is the prime minister?
  • How do you pay a phone bill?
    • In the UK, you pay your landline phone bill by either direct debit or filling the slip at the bottom with the payment at a post office (through Girobank) or United Kingdom come about?

      Another list of typical questions (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3078690.stm) from the BBC has in addition:

      "Cricket Test"

      Former Conservative minister Norman Tebbit once suggested the "cricket test", also known as the "Tebbit test", where he suggested that people from ethnic minorities in Britain should not be considered truly British until they supported the England cricket team, as opposed to the country of their or their ancestors' birth.


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