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Immigrants’
study guide is UK bestseller
WSN Network
London: Life In The United Kingdom has become the best selling
political book in Britain.
The book — a study guide that helps immigrants to pass the
24-question test for British citizenship — has beaten Alastair
Campbell’s diaries to come top of the rankings. A further five
guides to the test, which assesses an applicant’s grasp of the
English language and knowledge of the nature of British customs,
politics and culture, have also made it into the top ten. According
to figures, already 80,000 copies of the top-selling political title
have been sold this year. By contrast, Campbell’s The Blair Years is
second in the chart, with 64,000 sales.
The other books, which combine concise summaries of the information
immigrants are expected to know with dozens of practice questions,
have collectively added 138,000 sales. In fact, the ratings came a
week after it was revealed that record immigration has been fuelling
the biggest rise in the population in Britain for almost 50 years.
Sir Andrew Green, the chairman of immigration pressure group
Migration Watch, said the figures demonstrated “yet another—rather
unusual—way in which immigration is affecting every corner of our
society”.
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October,
2007
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