hello and welcome. the uk prime minister rishi sunak has given his first tv interview of the year to the bbc s laura kuennsberg. mr sunak addressed concerns over nurses strikes and said he will talk to the royal college of nursing union about pay but does not commit to increasing wages now to end their strike action. we want to have a reasonable, honest two way conversation about pay and everything else that is relevant. you do want to have a conversation about pay? because up until now. well, that s different. that s always been the case. the door has always been open to talk about things that the nurses want to talk about and the unions want to talk about more generally, which is why actually we just wrote to all the unions from across the public sector inviting them into the talks. inviting them in for talks. and those talks are happening in many sectors on monday, which is great. and when it comes to pay, we have always said we want to talk about things that are reason
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