I'm John that's who with my colleague Joseph Sternberger, the member of the

editor board of the Wall Street Journal. He's in London for the 37 days

between now, right now, and the election of July 4th.

The first election since 2016, 2018, I can't do my math anymore.

2019, yes, before the pandemic.

So this is a post-pandemic election.

And it turns on a number of issues that Joe has already explicated, but one that is new,

to my knowledge, the Prime Minister Mr.

Sunak has introduced the idea of national service and some are said to favor

what does it mean, Joe, National Service?

Because the London Times, I believe,

or maybe it's a telegraph, have a picture

of the three children of William and Kate

as National Service eligible.

What does it mean to be National Service?

Well, the key concept between National Service,

I mean, certainly a lot of European countries

for much longer than we tend to think of in America had retained

this tradition of some sort of military conscription or required military service for young

people and then that also could include various forms of

community service but you know a bit more intensive than that just kind of

hanging out picking up litter every once in a while.

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