Home Office urged to correct false slavery information in citizenship test

Exclusive: Historians demand ‘fundamentally misleading’ details on British empire and slavery are corrected

More than 175 historians have called on the Home Office to remove the history element of the UK citizenship test because of its “misleading and false” representation of slavery and empire.

The signatories say the official handbook, which the Life in the UK test is based on, creates a distorted version of history, which directly counters the values of tolerance and fairness it purports to promote.

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