A BANDAGED demonstrator helped General Election campaigners make a point about New Labour's health policies outside York District Hospital today.

The mummified socialist was a supporter of the Socialist Alliance candidate for York, Frank Ormston, whose point was "New Labour - bound by profit".

The campaigners then went on to gather signatures on petitions around York.

But Labour candidate Hugh Bayley said: "Labour launched a ten-year programme to rebuild the NHS and we've already produced a new heart unit, kidney dialysis unit, endoscopy and accident and emergency units at the hospital as well as a direct walk-in centre."

Updated: 11:59 Saturday, May 26, 2001