This week the Tory Prime Minister Rishi Sunak promised that, if re-elected, he will introduce a form of National Service for 18-year-olds. UK National Service, which was for young men only, ended in the early 1960s, and was entirely military - but this proposed 21st Century version is for eighteen-year-old men and women, and offers a choice: one year's …
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