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Get into uniform, Sunak tells teens
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak issuing a statement outside 10 Downing Street, London, after calling a General Election for July 4, May 22, 2024

GET into uniform is Rishi Sunak’s message to first-time voters as his struggling election campaign took a militaristic turn today.

The Prime Minister announced that a re-elected Conservative government would bring back conscription, forcing teenagers into the armed services.

Eighteen-year-olds would have the alternative of doing compulsory service in their communities at weekends, he said, launching a policy unlikely to overcome the Tories’ enormous polling deficit among the young.

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