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The Tory obsession with uniforms resurfaces every now and again.
I seem to remember Gove when Education minister had a plan for Free Schools and possibly academies to resurrect the Combined Cadet Force.
National Service was discussed somehwere in the wilderness of the last 14 years.
The Army were against it. They don't have the facilities for the numbers involved,
and have enough trouble motivating people who have signed up let alone those
who would be pressganged.
Going further back, Willie Whitelaw, Home Secretary to Thatcher, had the 'short sharp shock'
for miscreants/borstal kids.
The summary was that this program produced a fitter miscreant who could more easily outrun Plod.