'Nuts' English language test poses barrier to accessing foreign butchers

Visa checks forcing foreign butchers to pass English language tests on cheese rolling, Charles Dickens and the Burlington Arcade ’smacks of things dreamed up by civil servants with little experience of the real world’.

Hannah Binns
News Reporter
clock • 2 min read
'Nuts' English language test poses barrier to accessing foreign butchers

Visa checks forcing foreign butchers to pass English language tests on cheese rolling, Charles Dickens and the Burlington Arcade 'smacks of things dreamed up by civil servants with little experience of...

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