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Hi, I'm Steven.

I'm Anouche and I'm Alfa.

On this week's New Statement Podcast, we discuss the politics of the nurses' pay freeze

and you ask us, will the Conservatives come to regret picking Sean Bailey as their mayoral candidate in London?

So the Labour Party has kicked off its campaign for the local elections on the issue of the nurses' pay freeze

which, out of you, in today's morning call was kind of the theme of it was, you know, that campaign and its pitfalls.

So what's kind of, you know, just talk us through, what do you see as the upside and the downsides of that choice?

Yes, so as you say, Keir Starmer and other national leaders and candidates from the Labour Party launched their election campaign

ahead of all of the elections taking place on the 6th of May this morning

with a virtual launch obviously.

And the top line is, a vote for Labour is a vote to support our nurses which people have probably already heard on the news

and should, if all goes well for Labour, people should be hearing that line in Newsboard and throughout the day.

And as you say in morning call, I kind of ran through the advantages of that line as well as the potential disadvantage is.

At first glance, it's a line that really plays to Labour's strengths because we've talked about the rye over.

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