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  • Will it Work: The best and worst policies of the 2024 election campaign

    sam fowles

    Happy Election Eve! To celebrate, here are “Will it Work’s” best and worst policies of the 2024 election campaign. 

    LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 02: An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish man leaves a polling station after placing his vote in the London Mayoral election on May 02, 2024 in London, England. Polls have opened across 107 authorities in England where voters are set to determine the fate of nearly 2,700 council seats. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)
  • Let’s be honest, young adults should be free to make their own choices

    Matthew Lesh

    From smoking bans to national service, depriving young adults of basic freedoms is a growing trend among policy makers, says Matthew Lesh Growing up we were told a straightforward story about how to succeed: try hard at school, get into university or some sort of training, find work in a relevant field, save for a [...]

    May 1972: Three secondary schoolboys smoking an illicit cigarette in Hyde Park, London. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)
  • Will it work? National service

    sam fowles

    Sunak's national service plan has dominated the first week of his election campaign, but, regardless of politics, will it work?

    LONDON, ENGLAND - MARCH 11: Cadets line up as they attend a Commonwealth Day Ceremony at Memorial Gate on March 11, 2024 in London, England. Government representatives and organisations from across the Commonwealth attended a ceremony preceding the annual Commonwealth Day service. They laid wreaths to honour the five million men and women from Africa, the Caribbean, and the Indian subcontinent who volunteered to serve with the Armed Forces during the First and Second World Wars. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
  • I loved ‘national service’, but Sunak’s scheme doesn’t pass muster

    May 29, 2024

    Volunteering for the RAF under a little-known scheme in the 80s was like a Boys’ Own adventure for Andy Blackmore, but an under-funded, under-resourced reboot won’t get the results Rishi Sunak wants Left, right, left, right, left, right, left. No, that’s not the commentary track to a game of political ping-pong between Labour and the [...]

  • National service is a gimmick, so where is Sunak’s actual vision?

    May 28, 2024

    Well, we didn’t have national service on our election bingo card, either.  Cast your mind back all of six days, and you’ll remember Rishi Sunak standing on the steps of Downing Street touting his plan for Britain, the foundation of which was economic stability on the way back. Vote Tory, get a growing economy, was [...]

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