Tory national service policy would leave UK’s poorest areas worse off, IFS warns
by Hazel Sheffield from Economics | The Guardian on (#6N4RW)
Thinktank says proposal to pay for scheme by scrapping shared prosperity fund would downgrade efforts to level up country
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".
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