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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.Baker, the Northern Ireland minister, made clear his unhappiness at the policy on X today.
I don’t like to be pedantic but a Government policy would have been developed by ministers on the advice of officials and collectively agreed. I would have had a say on behalf of NI.Baker’s outburst is another blow for the policy, which has been mired in confusion since being announced over the weekend.
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