I'm deeply middle class, but still found it quite hard to locate someone with a job on the Home Office list, who'd known me 3+ years, to sign my passport application. Massively harder if you're newly arrived, applying for citizenship, and just don't know many people.
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When it came to getting something similar for my pension to prove i was still alive, though... I couldn't even get my sodding solicitor to do it for me. ;-(