David O'BrienMay 27, 2024

This idea is so obviously #risible it's clearly just a fishing lure for the right-wing #spitterati to attract votes from ageing Reform-leaning, Daily Mail reading, reactionaries.

It will never, and was never intended to, become policy.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/27/national-service-rishi-sunak-tories-general-election

The pensioners’ party plays its last moth-eaten card: national service for the young

After 14 years of youth bashing, the Tories’ plan to ‘toughen up’ British teenagers might be just what it takes to bring them all out to vote, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian