‘Teenage Dad’s Army’: Starmer dismisses PM’s national service policy

The Labour leader has called Rishi Sunak’s policy to introduce a form of mandatory national service requiring 18-year-olds to either join the military for 12 months or undertake weekend volunteer work ‘desperate’, adding that it would create a ‘teenage Dad’s Army’.
Delivering a keynote speech in West Sussex while campaigning for the general election, Starmer said: ‘All this spinning round and round … it’s symbolic of the chaos and the instability’
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