A YOUNG Tory accused the party of trying to set generations against each other with its controversial election campaign call to bring back national service.

Speaking in a conference panel about overcoming the party’s chronic voting deficit among younger people, Tyneside councillor Olly Scargill said: “In the general election some of what we campaigned upon was wedge issues.

“Things like national service were probably designed to play off younger people and older people, and when you’ve got a rising age of Conservative voter, it is incredibly unsustainable.”