rishi sunak has pledged to give 30 towns across the uk £20 million each, if the conservatives are re elected. my colleaguejess parker has been following the conservatives and gave me this update earlier. i am on the conservative battle bus. it s on its inaugural campaignjourney. and there s a little bit of confusion because, of course, myself and other reporters have been reporting from buses since the campaign began. that was on a different bus. didn t have conservative branding. didn t have the prime minister on board. but we re now on the officially branded bus that was launched earlier today in redcar, and we re continuing to travel across the north east. just to give you a sense of this bus, if the camera will kindly do a little crowd view. this is producerjack bbc producerjack. and then down the aisle there there are other reporters from different broadcasters, from newspapers as well. and of course the idea is that you get to follow the campaign, you get to be in re
in incident numbers and hopefully with our training, kit and equipment, we ll be able to make that intervention that will be a life saving intervention. it s hard to believe just how difficult it is to move like this, isn t it? if you look at the special footwear we wear to get us in and out of the mud compared to your wellingtons and how far you ve sunk and how easy we are moving across and you re now stuck. i am stuck. you are stuck. stop! i have to turn around and sit you in a raft because you can t walk back. if you try to pull that out, you ll leave your boot behind. yeah. you re now technically stuck in the mud as a casualty. we need to extract you back in our raft back to the safe zone. so, when we dig people out, we re always looking for the bottom of the foot, the heel. see how sloppy it is? don t push down.