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| General election 2024 live: Cleverly quizzed on Conservative Party's national service plan - BBC News | General election 2024 live: Cleverly quizzed on Conservative Party's national service plan - BBC News |
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| We're about midway through the day, and so it's worth revisiting our questions from earlier that we were going to try and answer about the national service plan. | |
| The Tories haven't set out how it will work. Instead, they say they will establish a public inquiry tasked with coming up with the details of how the scheme would function. | |
| Here's a summary of some of the finer points we do already know: | |
| The number of military placements under the scheme would be 30,000. At any given time, there are roughly three quarters of a million over-18s in the UK | |
| The number of volunteering days needed to complete national service requirements will be 25 over the course of a year | |
| The military placements will be "selective" and reserved for "brightest and best" | |
| They will cover logistics, cyber security, procurement and civil response | |
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| While the Tories say a pilot for the scheme would be in place by 2025, the full programme could take four or five years after the election to enact | |
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