Starmer Invokes 1970s UK Sitcom to Mock National Service Plan
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Keir Starmer mocked Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s plan to revive national service for young Britons, which the Labour leader described as emblematic of sudden policy shifts by the Conservative Party over the past 14 years.
“A sort of teenage Dad’s Army,” was Starmer’s description, a reference to a British sitcom from the 1970s about a bumbling group of volunteers in the Home Guard, a citizen military group during World War II.