Watch: Anneliese Dodds squirms on nurses’ pay

Oh dear. Labour have had a pretty good run of late, castigating the Tory government at every turn. But given the chance to set out her alternative vision on Sky News this morning, Labour chair Anneliese Dodds could only squirm when pressed as to how her party would be handling the strikes.

Under repeated questioning from Anna Jones, Dodds – a former Shadow Chancellor to boot – desperately claimed that she was not ‘going to on live television pluck a figure out of the air.’ Presumably she thought Sky had asked her on to discuss political ephemera? Her answer was simply the bland insistence that ‘we would negotiate’ but not, er, actually explain Labour’s red lines going in to such a negotiation.

By Steerpike’s count, Dodds ducked the question no less than four times. If this is the best Labour have got, perhaps the Tories aren’t done just yet…