Rishi Sunak’s promise to bring back national service looms large on a number of the front pages.
Writing in the Mail on Sunday, the prime minister says too much potential in the UK is wasted, external on what he calls purposeless lives. Mr Sunak says the scheme will open people’s eyes to potential careers and he’d be very happy to see his own daughters do national service.
The Sunday Express calls the plans bold and eye-catching with the paper saying the pledge, external will strike a chord with voters of every age and help restore what it sees as a diminished sense of shared nationhood.
Conservatives hope the policy will mark a dividing line with Labour and present the Tories as the only party that can be trusted with the UK’s defence, external, according to the Sunday Telegraph.
