Rishi Sunak election campaign has got off to a bad start.
The Conservatives’ general election campaign is in meltdown after a minister criticised Rishi Sunak’s flagship policy of bringing back national service.
Steve Baker said the PM’s plan for all 18-year-olds to either enlist in the Army for a year or volunteer for community service had been “sprung on” Tory candidates.
It emerged yesterday that just last week, defence minister Andrew Murrison had set out why the government did not support the return of national service.