Jurist

UK Conservative Party proposes mandatory national service for 18 year olds

The UK’s incumbent Conservative Party has announced they intend to introduce mandatory National Service for 18-year-olds if they win the next election. In a video posted to X (formerly Twitter) on ...
The Conversation

Teenagers have gone through enough – national service is too much to ask

Jo Aubrey is a member of the Labour Party and the Fawcett Society, UK prime minister Rishi Sunak has announced plans to reintroduce national service should the Conservative party retain power in the ...
The Independent

Rishi Sunak was right: Britain needs to bring back national service

The name Lossiemouth is from another era. The home of the main RAF base in the north of Scotland was a legendary bastion of UK and Nato defences during the Cold War. Then suddenly – or so it seems – ...
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UK will have conscription in five years – we’re in denial about a dangerous world

Senior defence figures warn Britain is unprepared for war and must bolster national resilience ...
Reuters

Lagging in polls, UK Conservatives pitch national service at 18

May 26 (Reuters) - Britain's Conservative Party will introduce mandatory national service for 18-year-olds if it wins the national election on July 4, comprising military or community participation, ...
THE WEEK

National service: Sunak's marching orders?

After 14 years of shambolic rule and one of the worst campaign launches ever, the Tories have played their "last moth-eaten card", said Polly Toynbee in The Guardian. Rishi Sunak has pledged that, if ...
CNN

Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pitches national service at 18

Britain’s Conservative Party will introduce mandatory national service for 18-year-olds if it wins the national election on July 4, comprising military or community participation, Prime Minister Rishi ...