I should pause here to explain the English requirements that are already in place, and who this concerns. The migrants this policy applies to are in the “skilled worker”, “high-potential individual” and “scale up” categories, which allow companies to recruit talented individuals for skilled roles. There is already a test which proves that these individuals can broadly get by – it’s called a job interview. Besides, the visas associated with these categories already require people to be able to speak English to GCSE level. Is it now important that applicants must be able to analyse the form of an extract from The Woman in Black? I’m not quite sure. I do not have an English A-level, like the vast majority of people in the UK, who somehow have not crashed the economy for lack of that qualification.