Kevin Schofield is Politics Editor of HuffPost UK.
Young people who refuse to do National Service could lose their “access to finance”, Rishi Sunak has said.Sunak revealed the draconian measures during an election Question Time special on BBC1.Presenter Fiona Bruce asked Sunak: “If national service is going to be compulsory how will you make people do it?”
Asked again what sanctions would be put in place, Sunak said there would be “a range of different options”.
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