UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak proposes mandatory national service for all 18-year-olds.
Rishi Sunak, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, has announced his intention to reintroduce mandatory national service for all 18-year-olds if the Conservative Party wins the July 4 national election. The plan includes both military and civilian options. Young people would spend either 12 months in the military or one weekend a month working for charities, community groups, hospitals, police and fire services.
The cost of implementing this policy is estimated to be £2.5 billion ($3.2 billion) annually. The Conservative Party plans to fund it partly by taking £1.5 billion from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund which was set up in 2022 to regenerate underfunded towns around the UK.
James Cleverly, the Home Secretary, has insisted that there will be no criminal sanctions for teenagers who refuse to join the military or do volunteer work. He stated that this policy is about dealing with social fragmentation and giving young people a shared sense of purpose.
The Labour Party criticized this announcement as a 'desperate unfunded commitment' and predicted it would never happen. They argued that the Tories hollowed out the armed forces to their smallest size since Napoleon, making it impossible to implement such a policy effectively.
External figures assess that £6 billion can be captured through cracking down on tax avoidance, of which £1 billion would be set aside for the national service. The rest of the funding would come from extending the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
Rishi Sunak announced that if the Conservative Party wins the July 4 election, eighteen-year-olds will have to perform a mandatory national service.
Young people would learn skills such as logistics, cybersecurity, procurement or civil response operations through their military service.
Community service option would involve helping local fire, police and National Health Service, as well as charities tackling loneliness in elderly people.
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The cost of implementing this plan is estimated to be £2.5 billion ($3.2 billion) annually.
The programme is estimated to cost approximately 2.5 billion pounds ($3.2bn) a year.
External figures assess that £6bn can be captured through cracking down on tax avoidance, of which £1bn would be set aside for the national service.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced plans for mandatory national service for all 18-year-olds in Britain if the Conservative Party wins the July 4 national election.
The cost of implementing this plan is estimated to be £2.5 billion ($3.2 billion) annually.
Labour criticized the announcement as a ‘desperate unfunded commitment’ and predicted 'it’ll never happen’.
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The election must be held no more than five years apart, with the prime minister choosing the timing within that period. Sunak announced an unexpected early election on July 4.
James Cleverly has insisted that there will be no criminal sanctions for teenagers who refuse to join the military or do volunteer work under the Conservatives’ proposed mandatory national service.
External figures assess that £6bn can be captured through cracking down on tax avoidance, of which £1bn would be set aside for the national service.
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. . . young people would face no criminal sanctions if they refused to join the military or do volunteer work under the Tories’ plan.
Labour dismissed the proposal as unserious and branded it Canother unfunded commitment
Tory estimates said introducing the policy would cost £2.5bn a year by the end of the decade, of which £1bn would be funded through plans to crack down on tax avoidance and evasion.
Rishi Sunak has announced his intention to reintroduce UK national service in his first major campaign policy.
There will be no criminal sanctions for teenagers who refuse to join the military or do volunteer work under the Conservatives’ proposed mandatory national service.
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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced plans for mandatory national service for all 18-year-olds in Britain if the Conservative Party wins the July 4 national election.
Rishi Sunak pledged to introduce a form of mandatory national service whereby 18-year-olds would either join the military for 12 months or do volunteer work at weekends.
