Hello and welcome to episode 28 of this election 24 series trying to get around 650

constituencies 539 to go by the end of today's show it will be down to 535. Four more candidates for you today.

If you are one in a seat that I haven't featured, please get in touch.

Political Party Podcast at gmail.com. Right, fasten your seat belts we are off up north to

burnly with labors candidate Oliver Ryan there and we've talked in the past about some of the

fascinating and inspiring young people standing for Parliament.

Oliver is 29 and really you wouldn't know it and I think that's true of so many of the young

people that have been on this podcast is so

many of them are so accomplished it's not just that they're young it's that they're

really good at it and I think that's what's so inspiring so let's let's go up to

Burnley for a big positive start to today's show with

Oliver Ryan Labour's candidate.

Ollie your Labour's candidate in Burnley, which people are going to hear that and go,

well that is just an absolutely rock solid Labour seat.

There's absolutely no way you couldn't win it, but actually it's it was Tory in 2019.

It had been Labour before that. I mean it elected the Lib Dems in 2010. So what is it now now is it a three-way marginal?

Absolutely well it's one of those seats that Labour's always had to work for I

think you're right people see it as a kind of archetypepal red wall seat and that's just not true.

We've always held it when we have held it on small majorities.

2010 was the sort of dying days of a labor government.

There was a big campaign run by the then lived

them campaigner now as lived them candidate to bring back the A&E. It then didn't go on to

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