Test 23 — Life in the UK Test Practice
About Test 23 (Official 3rd Edition Handbook)
Test 23 is a free 24-question practice test for British citizenship naturalisation and Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR / settlement) applicants in the United Kingdom. Every question is written directly from the official Home Office handbook, Life in the UK: A Guide for New Residents (3rd Edition), covering British values, UK history, society, and government. To pass the official Life in the UK Test (booking fee £50 at gov.uk), candidates must answer at least 18 out of 24 multiple-choice questions correctly (75% pass mark) within 45 minutes.
Life in the UK Test 23
During its government, Margaret Thatcher made structural changes to the economy through the privatisation of nationalised industries and imposed legal controls on trade union powers:
Correct Answer: True
True. Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government (1979–1990) transformed the British economy through two landmark policies: the privatisation of nationalised industries such as British Telecom, British Gas, and British Airways; and imposing legal controls on trade unions, including restrictions on secondary picketing and requiring ballots before strikes.
These reforms reshaped Britain's economic landscape and remain among the most debated policy changes in modern British history.