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National Service

  • Will it Work: The best and worst policies of the 2024 election campaign

    sam fowles

    Happy Election Eve! To celebrate, here are “Will it Work’s” best and worst policies of the 2024 election campaign. 

  • Let’s be honest, young adults should be free to make their own choices

    Matthew Lesh

    From smoking bans to national service, depriving young adults of basic freedoms is a growing trend among policy makers, says Matthew Lesh Growing up we were told a straightforward story about how to succeed: try hard at school, get into university or some sort of training, find work in a relevant field, save for a [...]

  • Will it work? National service

    sam fowles

    Sunak's national service plan has dominated the first week of his election campaign, but, regardless of politics, will it work?

  • I loved ‘national service’, but Sunak’s scheme doesn’t pass muster

    May 29, 2024

    Volunteering for the RAF under a little-known scheme in the 80s was like a Boys’ Own adventure for Andy Blackmore, but an under-funded, under-resourced reboot won’t get the results Rishi Sunak wants Left, right, left, right, left, right, left. No, that’s not the commentary track to a game of political ping-pong between Labour and the [...]

  • National service is a gimmick, so where is Sunak’s actual vision?

    May 28, 2024

    Well, we didn’t have national service on our election bingo card, either.  Cast your mind back all of six days, and you’ll remember Rishi Sunak standing on the steps of Downing Street touting his plan for Britain, the foundation of which was economic stability on the way back. Vote Tory, get a growing economy, was [...]

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