The Government should consider reintroducing national service to protect Britain, the author of the defence review has suggested.
Former Nato chief Lord Robertson said introducing a Swedish-style national service ‘should certainly be on the agenda’ due to the ‘threats that we now face’.
The Labour peer’s comments are his latest major intervention in recent weeks after he accused his own Government of ‘corrosive complacency’ on defence spending.
Last week a House of Lords committee that he chairs heaped pressure on the Government to publish its defence spending plan – which is now more than six months overdue.
Now Lord Robertson, who wrote the Government’s
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