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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak issuing a statement outside 10 Downing Street, London, after calling a General Election for July 4, May 22, 2024
GET into uniform is Rishi Sunak’s message to first-time voters as his struggling election campaign took a militaristic turn today.
The Prime Minister announced that a re-elected Conservative government would bring back conscription, forcing teenagers into the armed services.
Eighteen-year-olds would have the alternative of doing compulsory service in their communities at weekends, he said, launching a policy unlikely to overcome the Tories’ enormous polling deficit among the young.
The new Scottish Parliament looks set to continue a cycle of managerial tinkering while public services face the axe, writes STEPHEN LOW
CLAUDIA WEBBE argues that Labour gains nothing from its adoption of right-wing stances on immigration, and seems instead to be deliberately paving the way for the far right to become an established force in British politics, as it has already in Europe
In part one of a two-part feature, CONOR BOLLINS asks whether we should be concerned about the Prime Minister’s military recruitment plans
