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British PM seeks election Hail Mary with youth national service plan: 'Last attempt to fix a broken nation'
[FoxNews] British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has promised to institute a national service requirement should the Conservative Party win the general election on July 4. "The appeal of the idea is particularly geared to more right wing voters who might have been leaning to vote for the Reform Party and may now switch back to Conservative," Alan Mendoza, co-founder and executive director of the Henry Jackson Society, told Fox News Digital. Sunak last week announced that the U.K. would have a general election, catching many in his own party off-guard. He made the announcement alone, standing in the rain outside the prime minister’s residence at 10 Downing Street while the 1997 Labour Campaign theme "Things Can Only Get Better" played in the background. Sunak has since then started laying out his proposal for the next phase of his government should he win the general election — a feat that appears increasingly difficult as the polling puts the rival Labour Party ahead by around 20 points and the Conservatives look to replace some 77 MPs who have decided not to run for re-election, according to The Institute For Government. Chief among the prime minister’s proposals is the eye-catching national service requirement, which the U.K. abandoned as a practice around 60 years ago: The last mandatory service requirements occurred after World War II and ended in 1960. The previous national service requirement meant 18 months of military training and four years on the reserve list, which would allow the government to draft citizens on short notice, according to the BBC. Related: Rishi Sunak 05/12/2024 Who are Israel's key weapons suppliers, and who has halted exports since Oct. 7? Rishi Sunak 05/08/2024 Sunak led the British Conservatives to disaster. But it's not over yet Rishi Sunak 05/07/2024 UK's Liberal Democrats to table no-confidence motion against Sunak's govt Posted by: Skidmark 2024-05-29 |
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