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Thinktank says proposal to pay for scheme by scrapping shared prosperity fund would downgrade efforts to level up countryUK politics live – latest updatesRishi Sunak’s election pledge to introduce mandatory national service would leave the UK’s poorest regions millions of pounds worse off, a thinktank has warned.The prime minister announced last weekend that if he was re-elected, every 18-year-old would have to spend time in a competitive, full-time military commission or spend one weekend a month volunteering in “civil resilience”. Continue reading…
Thinktank says proposal to pay for scheme by scrapping shared prosperity fund would downgrade efforts to level up country
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Rishi Sunak’s election pledge to introduce mandatory national service would leave the UK’s poorest regions millions of pounds worse off, a thinktank has warned.
The prime minister announced last weekend that if he was re-elected, every 18-year-old would have to spend time in a competitive, full-time military commission or spend one weekend a month volunteering in “civil resilience”.