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Penny Mordaunt wants Britons to show “more resilience” in a bid to support the armed forces.
It comes amid calls for conscription to be introduced in response to escalating worldwide tensions.
Penny Mordaunt spoke to GB News about conscription
GB NEWS
Downing Street said service would remain voluntary after the outgoing head of the British Army, General Sir Patrick Sanders, said earlier this week the UK should “train and equip” a “citizen army”.
“We need to be a resilient nation, and that doesn’t mean stepping up to pick up a rifle”, Mordaunt told GB News.
“What it means is on anything that might happen to us in the future we want our communities to be able to respond to that.
“When I re-wrote this nation’s resilience strategy, setting up a civil defence force to be able to deal with some of the things that currently we ask our armed forces to do was part of that suggestion.
“We can take pressure of our arm forces by becoming more resilient to ourselves.
“And that is something important that we should do.”
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