'Teenage Dad's Army' Keir Starmer mocks national service, is that just what Rishi Sunak wanted?
ANALYSIS
If Rishi Sunak were serious about national service, he would have done two things, made the case for it and made it a bipartisan cause.
Instead, by lobbing it out at the start of a spluttering campaign he makes it clear that he is trying to draw a political faultline for this election, that no current poll says he will win.
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